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A note on the anarchist agrupación

Photo of an outing organised by the agrupación Faros, published in La Revista Blanca, 15 August 1932, p. 175. Recent correspondence with Zoe Baker made…

May 5 •

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December 2022

For the autonomy of the municipality – José Xena

Ideas, 21 January 1937

Dec 24, 2022 •

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Five Misrepresentations of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia (1938) is the most famous book on the Spanish Civil War in the English language, but there is a tendency amongst both its admirers…

Dec 13, 2022 •

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November 2022

Against Collaboration

Anarquía, n. 3, 12 July 1937 (Barcelona)

Nov 1, 2022 •

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August 2022

Activism and underground resistance in France – Germinal Gracia

Tomás Gracia Ibars (1919-1991), known to friends and comrades as Germinal, and to a wider audience by the pseudonym Víctor García, was a Spanish…

Aug 13, 2022 •

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The Unconquerable - Lucía Sánchez Saornil

First published in S.I.A, 9 March 1939. Reproduced in Orto. Revista cultural de ideas ácratas, 150 (2008), 38-39. With thanks to Paz for help with the…

Aug 8, 2022 •

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April 2022

1 April 1939 - Eduardo de Guzmán

Extracts translated from Eduardo de Guzmán, La muerte de la esperanza (Madrid: G. del Toro, 1973), pp. 387-394. The CNT activist and journalist relates…

Apr 1, 2022 •

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March 2022

Hobsbawm in Puigcerdà

Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, during a holiday in the Pyrenees, the nineteen-year-old Eric Hobsbawm spent an afternoon in the…

Mar 26, 2022 •

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A Counterrevolutionary Provocation

The Police Forces Assault the CNT Local Expropriated from the Escolapios on 19 July. Juventud Obrera (Barcelona), October 1937

Mar 12, 2022 •

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December 2021

One hundred years of solitude

This has been a year of anniversaries: one hundred and fifty years since the Paris Commune and the birth of Rosa Luxemburg; one hundred years since the…

Dec 31, 2021 •

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November 2021

Anarchist Japan: A Letter from Taiji Yamaga

The following was published on 27 October 1963 in Ruta (Caracas), the journal of the Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth in exile in Venezuela…

Nov 30, 2021 •

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October 2021

Institutional Memory and Institutional Turn

In the wake of the ‘Occupy moment’, one of the more interesting criticisms of the activism described by David Graeber as ‘new anarchist’, was that it…

Oct 30, 2021 •

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