-
Recent Posts
Categories
- Commentary (1,688)
- Discussion (6)
- Film (124)
- Interview (67)
- News blog (835)
- Poiesis (127)
- Review (3)
Tag Archives: spain
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
Posted in Commentary
Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, CNT, revolution, spain, the spanish revolution
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Commentary, Interview, Poiesis
Tagged Art, Art and Revolution, flamenco, folk music, Niño de Elche, spain
Leave a comment
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
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged 15M, anarchism, Federación de anarquistas Gran Canaria, Ruymán Rodríguez, spain
Leave a comment
Amador Fernández-Savater: “The weak are wrong if they use the force and methods of the strong”
Amador Fernández-Savater has written the book La fuerza de los débiles with the desire to understand what happened to 15M and after 15M and to thereby analyze the current world, to continue looking for ways to understand politics. For this, … Continue reading
Posted in Interview
Tagged 15M, Amador Fernández-Savater, Podemos, revolution, spain, Spanish Revolution
Leave a comment
Solidarity with Gabriel Pombo da Silva and all anarchist prisoners
‘There is nothing to reform’ (words from Gabriel Pombo da Silvia via culmine, translated by war on society and published with the Anarchist Library): I am not so naive as to believe that what I am living here is something exceptional… and since “the … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged anarchism, anti-prison, Gabriel Pombo Da Silva, political prisoners, spain
Leave a comment
Ruymán Rodríguez and the Federación Anarquista de Gran Canaria: An Interview
An interview for the spanish newspaper, El Salto diario (05/10/2021) … The Canarian anarchist activist Ruymán Rodríguez visits the Valencian Community, invited by the Mostra del Llibre Anarquista d’Alacant, to share the work carried out by the Sindicato de Inquilinas … Continue reading
Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
(Originally published in two parts by Freedom News (23/11/2020; 30/11/2020), we share an article by Danny Evans) I was approached by Jeff Stein to write up a summary of Abel Paz, La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española so that English-language … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary
Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, spain
1 Comment
Remembering Spain: Fascism, Revolution and Colonialism
The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ‘state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, Film
Tagged anti-fascism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, morroco, spain, State terror, the spanish revolution
1 Comment
For Samuel Luiz; with all LGBTQI people
In the early hours of the 3rd of July, 24 year old Samuel Luiz was beaten to death outside a nightclub by a dozen people in La Coruña, Galicia. The motivation would appear to be that he was gay. (The … Continue reading
Posted in Commentary, News blog
Tagged anti-capitalism, capitalism, LGBTQ+, patriarchy, spain
Leave a comment
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 →