Fantastic and detailed biography of legendary anti-Franco guerrilla, Francisco Sabate Llopart. Written by Antonio Tellez and translated by Stuart Christie, this book recounts the life, actions and death of the longest-surviving underground resistance fighter.
Sabate: guerrilla extraordinary - Antonio Tellez
The Congress of Zaragoza
European syndicalism and the IWW
A 1933 reply by Ralph Chaplin to, seemingly, Spanish anarchist Maximiliano Olay, about the differences between the CNT and the IWW.
The anarchist question in the Spanish revolution - Pepe Gutiérrez-Álvarez
A critical, yet sympathetic assessment of the role of the anarchists in the Spanish Revolution and the “circumstantialism” and collaborationism of the CNT-FAI, in which the author portrays the Workers Alliance (a revolutionary insurrection initiated by communist left groups in 1934, largely restricted to Asturias, based on the principle of trade union and proletarian unity) as not just a missed opportunity but also as a possible model for an alternative to the fatal choice between collaboration and an unacceptable “anarchist dictatorship”.
The May days: Barcelona 1937
Interesting collection of writings on the May days in Barcelona: the combination of the "civil war within the civil war" as workers fought back against a counter-revolutionary Communist Party takeover.
Speech at the Madrid Ateneo - Salvador Seguí
A speech delivered by Salvador Seguí in 1919 in Madrid in which the CNT leader denounces Catalonian separatism as an alibi for the repression of the workers movement, denies that socialist parties or anarchist groups are capable of assuming responsibility for production, calls upon the unions to focus on an educational program to prepare the Trade Unions, based on occupational categories, to guarantee the normalization of production and consumption after the revolution (so that “all the material needs of life for all humans will be assured”), and claims that this preparation (“We have to read a lot, and discuss even more”) is an indispensable precondition for communism.
A grass root C.N.T. militant Remembers : The oral memoirs of Luis Parés Adán
Luis Parés Adán's account of the Spanish revolution, defeat and the post-war resistance from the perective of a grassroots CNT militant.
Spain turns
Contempory account and analysis of events in Spain, particularly concerning the social revolution, from anti-Bolshevik Marxist journal International Review, Vol.2 No.3, New York, April 1937.
New Trends Vol. 1, No. 5-6 (February-March 1946)
The Vol. 1, No. 5-6 (February-March 1946) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
New Trends Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1946)
The Vol. 1, No. 7 (April 1946) issue of New Trends, an anarchist publication produced out of New York City from September 1945 until August 1946.
Beware! Anarchist! A life for freedom - Augustin Souchy
The incredible autobiography of an incredible man. Souchy fought in the Spanish Revolution; was a serious and knowledgeable student of Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin, and Gustav Landauer; a consistent war-resister; a prolific pamphleteer; a major figure in the International Workers' Association (IWA); an anarcho-syndicalist determined to put theory into practice; one of the best informed specialists on the varieties of workers' control and self-management. These are memoirs par excellence, with a forward by Theo Waldinger, and an afterward by Sam Dolgoff.
Buenaventura Durruti interview - Pierre van Paasen
In 1936, after the liberation of Aragon from Franco's forces, leading Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti was interviewed by Pierre van Paasen of the Toronto Star. In this interview he gives his views on Fascism, government and social revolution despite the fact that his remarks have only been reported in English - and were never actually written down by him in his native Spanish - they are worth repeating here.
Emancipation Vol. 9, Issue 5, Number 69 (December 1986)
The Vol. 9, Issue 5, Number 69 (December 1986) issue of Emancipation a publication produced by the Anarchist Association of the Americas during the 1980s.
Why We Lost the War – Diego Abad de Santillán
A retrospective on the Spanish Civil War by the FAI leader, Diego Abad de Santillán, published in 1940, in which the former Minister of the Economy of the Generalitat blames foreign (especially Russian) intervention, the farcical “non-intervention” of the western democracies, and the centralism of the (Russian-ruled) Republic for Franco’s victory, citing long passages from official FAI documents, reports from various CNT committees, testimonials of front line soldiers, minutes from meetings of the Popular Front and libertarian plenums, etc., as well as his own wartime suggestions concerning military strategy (guerrilla warfare), and expresses regrets for his pacifying role in May 1937.
La Kolektivigoj en Katalunio (1936-1939)
Eseo de Antoni Castells Duran pri la kolektivigoj en Katalunio okazigitaj inter la jaroj 1936 kaj 1939.
A new world in our hearts: the faces of Spanish anarchism
Book published in 1978 by Cienfuegos Press, edited by Albert Meltzer, giving an overview of the anarchist movement in Spain following the death of dictator General Franco.
Anarchist organisation: the history of the FAI
The first book-length history of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) from 1927 until it was repressed at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939, written by one of its members, Juan Gómez Casas.
Valeriano Orobón: la porunuiga voĉo de la Konfederacio en 1934
Valeriano Orobon estis Anarkiisto-Syndikalisto en Hispanio. Li kredis en la "Laborista Alianco" revolucia per la unio de la NKL (CNT) kaj ĜUL (UGT) anstataŭe revolucia per politico venko aŭ la populara Fronto de la Komunista Partio.
The CNT and the IWA, part 1: The CNT since Franco
The decision that the CNT took at its eleventh congress (December 2015) to re-found the IWA is the latest act in the process of updating anarcho-syndicalism which began with the resurrection of the CNT in 1977, and which still isn’t finished.