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The confluence of spain’s divided anarcho-syndicalist unions
The CGT, the CNT and Solidaridad Obrera present an agreement for the unity of action of the three organisations. A historic step for anarcho-syndicalism (tercerainformacion.es, 11/04/2023) Last Monday, April 10, at the premises of the Anselmo Lorenzo Foundation in Madrid, … Continue reading
Mujeres Libres: A genealogy of anarchist feminism
Celebrating March 8, International Women’s Day … Mujeres Libres was born from a genealogy that came from the First International, but it fully flourished at a time of social revolution and civil war. Marginalised from the social revolution modeled and … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anarcho-feminism, Feminism, Mujeres Libres, spain, the spanish revolution
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Fraguas Communique February 2023
From El Lokal (24/02/2023) Call for solidarity to prevent the incarceration of the Fraguas 6 In 2013, the Fraguas Revive project was born in a town abandoned since 1968, expropriated (forcibly and fraudulently) by the Franco regime and destroyed with … Continue reading
Fraguas, the state against an autonomous rural collective
We return to Fraguas, spain, in solidarity with the effort to create an autonomous, rural collective in the mountains around Madrid, now confronted with the final act in a process of state persecution. The Fraguas six will go to jail … Continue reading
Melilla: Eichmann at the border
… it is terrible to inhabit and know a world where eyes are no longer able to give a look – I do not say of love, but even of curiosity or sympathy. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Petrolio Have the moral … Continue reading
Forgotten Fighters: American Anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War
From the The Volunteer, the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade website, an excellent article (30/08/2017), by Kenyon Zimmer, on North American volunteers in the Spanish Civil War/Revolution. Among the almost 3,000 foreign anarchists who fought in the Spanish Civil … Continue reading
A tour of the CNT positions during the Civil War
We share below an important text on the changing positions of the anarchist CNT labour union during the Spanish Civil War/Revolution, published at Alasbarricadas (11/12/2021) and published in English at Anarkismo.net (20/12/2021). [We have made only minor revisions to the … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, CNT, revolution, spain, the spanish revolution
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The anarchy of a music: Niño de Elche
El Grito La elipse de un grito, va de monte a monte. Desde los olivos, será un arco iris negro sobre la noche azul. ¡Ay! Como un arco de viola, el grito ha hecho vibrar largas cuerdas del viento. ¡Ay! … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Art and Revolution, flamenco, folk music, Niño de Elche, spain
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10 years of neighbourhood anarchism: The FAGC
We translated and published our first post dedicated to the Federación Anarquista Gran Canaria in May of 2013. We have since tried modestly and from a distance to follow the remarkable activity of those who have made the Federación and … Continue reading
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Tagged 15M, anarchism, Federación de anarquistas Gran Canaria, Ruymán Rodríguez, spain
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Amador Fernández-Savater: The reactionary wave and the death drive
From Lobo Suelto! (25/06/2023) … Sólo el amor nos permite escapar de la repetición Jorge Luis Borges What does “the reactionary wave” mean globally and here in Spain? How to understand this complex and multifaceted phenomenon, in order to better … Continue reading →