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ANARCHISTS IN THE SPANISH REVOLUTION

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ISBN 10: 
0 900384 53 0
ISBN 13: 
978 0 900384 53 0
Number of pages: 
388
First published: 
1990
This edition: 
1998
Blurb: 

Translated from Los anarquistas en la crisis politica espanola (1962), this is the most comprehensive, critical history of the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, and the role played in it by the CNT-FAI, the anarcho-syndicalists and anarchists. The first hundred pages are a brief survey of the working class movement in Spain, going back to the foundation of the Spanish section of the First International in 1869, and the political struggles which were a prelude to the Civil War.

An appendix. In 1988 Jose Peirats wrote a history of Spanish anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists in exile after 1939, which he apparently intended as an appendix to this book. To have added it as an appendix to this edition, however, would have prohibitively increased the cost. It is published in full, under the title 'Spanish anarchism in exile' in The Raven number 23 (Freedom Press, £3 post-free anywhere), with other essays on Spain under Franco and after.

The cover picture was released to the press by the Defence Council of the Catalan government in 1936/37.

Contents: 

Acknowledgements

Note [on abbreviations]

Publishers' note

Preface

1. From the Beginnings to the First Great Struggle

2. Repression and Martyrs

3. Conspiricies Against the Dictatorship

4. The Anti-Monarchist Offensive

5. The Republic and its Fatal Cancer

6. The Cycle of Insurrections

7. Spain in Flames

8. The Tide of Revolution

9. The Tragedy of the Spanish Countryside

10. The Revolution in the Countryside

11. From the Army of Africa to the Army of the People

12. The Main Stages of Apolitical Syndicalism

13. The Ministerial Collaboration of the CNT

14. The Growth of the Spanish Communist Party

15. Prelude to the Great Drama

16. Events of May

17. The New Iberian Inquisition

18. The Iberian Anarchist Federation

19. The Council of Aragon

20. The Iberian Federation of Young Anarchists

21. The CNT-UGT Pact

22. The Crisis in the Libertarian Movement

23. Communists and Anarchists in the War

24. The Last Bastion

Notes

Glossary of Names

Biographical note(s): 

Jose Peirats Valls (1908-1989) started work at the age of eight. At the age of fourteen he became an apprentice brickmaker and a member of the clandestine Libertarian Youth. During the Civil War he fought with the anarchist militias, escaping to South America in 1939. From 1947 he lived in Toulouse, where he edited two Spanish-language journals and wrote a three-volume history La CNT en la Revolucion Espanola, 1951-53. After the death of Franco he returned to Spain and spent the rest of his life in the village of his birth.