Olimpiaj ludoj en Barcelono: Eduardo Vivancos
Artikolo pri la Popolaj Olimpiaj Ludoj de Barcelono, verkita de partopreninto, Eduardo Vivancos.
Sisterly solidarity - Pepita Carpena
Submitted by Steven. on Aug 5 2016 19:07
Account by Pepita Carpena of the Spanish anarchist Mujeres Libres (Free Women) on how comrades helped her flee Spain after the victory of Franco's forces in 1939.
The Expropriated Bank of Gràcia: One More Step Forward in the Strategy of Tension – Argelaga
Submitted by Alias Recluse on May 28 2016 19:57
A report from Barcelona (published May 24, 2016) on the eviction of squatters from an expropriated former bank that was being used as a libertarian social center, the role of the City Government led by the former indignado, now Mayor, Ada Colau, in the affair, the resistance mounted by the social center’s supporters, and the political implications of the fact that Colau’s party, Barcelona en Comú (“Barcelona in Common”), despite her reassurances to the contrary, has now become a responsible party to repression and is providing a fig-leaf for a slowly intensifying “strategy of tension” that heralds further authoritarian developments for Spain.
The tragic week, Spain 1909 - Murray Bookchin
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 30 2014 15:51
Murray Bookchin's history of the "tragic week": a spontaneous workers' uprising in Catalonia, Spain, which was isolated and crushed by the government, leaving hundreds dead.
Saperas, Francesca (1851-1933)
Submitted by Battlescarred on Jun 28 2014 21:55
A short biography of the Spanish anarchist Francesca Saperas.
Can Vies: the reason of force in Barcelona under police rule - Argelaga
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jun 1 2014 01:49
A short article about the recent riots in Barcelona after the city attempted to enforce an eviction order and demolish a popular social center in the neighborhood of Sants known as “Can Vies”, in which the authors observe that, “The total domination of Capital demands a kind of urban space that is managed like a business and pacified like a prison. Within this space there is no room for neighborhood assemblies, or ways of life at the margins of the market economy. In this space, the framework cannot be more authoritarian, and politics is not distinguished from social control. In a world that is heading towards totalitarianism, political management is repression.”
The Spanish civil war: revolution and counterrevolution - Burnett Bolloten
This monumental book offers a comprehensive history and analysis of Republican political life during the Spanish Civil War.
Birth of Our Power - Victor Serge
Pan-European novel, taking us from the workers' stronghold of Barcelona at the end of the First World War where hopes for revolution are fueled by the news of revolution in Russia.
Solidarity motor bulletin #05: Spain: struggle at SEAT Barcelona
Excellent bulletin about workers' struggles at car manufacturer Seat in Barcelona October 1974-January 1975, looking at the history of the industry and class struggle in Franco's Spain in the preceding years.
The CNT defense committees in Barcelona 1933-1938: An interview with Agustín Guillamón
Submitted by Alias Recluse on Jan 15 2013 00:41
A discussion of the rise and fall of the revolutionary institutions that were the foundation of the Spanish Revolution in the anarchosyndicalist stronghold of Barcelona, the social and organizational context of the anarchosyndicalist movement during the Civil War at the neighborhood level, the conflict between the rank and file militants and the collaborationist “superior committees” of the anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT, the meaning of the “spontaneity” of that movement and the process that led to its destruction at the hands of the republicans and Stalinists.
