1936-1939 The Spanish War and Social Revolution
Sources
The Anarchist Militias
The Social Revolution
International Reactions:
– Spain and the British Anarchists
Posters
Though the articles mentioned here are limited to the years 1936-1939, the time span of the Spanish Civil War does not limit itself to the period of a military conflict, which in reality was ultimately decided by Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. The civil war consisted in a large cycle of revolutions and counter-revolutions as well as the guerilla period that followed after general Franco’s "victory".
It was an international event, which affected and transformed many people in many countries. Furthermore, the non-intervention of Great Britain and France caused it to be a prelude to World War II.
The large number of refugees was an important contribution to antifascist resistance, particularly in France.
This "brief Summer of Anarchism" is also an exceptional illustration of the practicability of anarchist ideas within the setting of large populations. There is much to learn from those successes and failures.
Ronald Creagh
Articles
DASHAR (HELMUT RÜDIGER): Lessons of Spain
Originally appeared in print in Vanguard [U.S.A.] (Vol. 4, No. 9, July 1939) page 11
Vadim V. DAMIER: The Spanish Revolution of 1936
Translated from the Russian by Malcolm Archibald Scanned from print original in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review 68, Fall, 2016, page (...)
Jeff STEIN: Two New Books on Spanish Anarchism
Scanned from print original in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review 68, Fall, 2016, page 22 a review of Chris Ealham, Living Anarchism: José Peirats and the (...)
FERNÁNDEZ Eliseo, Antón BRIALLOS and Carmen BLANCO, Anarchism in Galicia
Edited and translated by Paul Sharkey. Kate Sharpley Library, 2011. 60 p. ISBN 9781893605127 (Anarchist sources 16). The Anarchist movement in (...)
OLSON, Joel. "The Revolutionary Spirit: Hannah Arendt and the Anarchists of the Spanish Civil War"
Polity, Vol. 29, No. 4. (Summer, 1997), pp. 461-488 Author’s Abstract Hannah Arendt argued that the only way to keep a revolution from (...)
Kenyon ZIMMER: The Other Volunteers
Originally appeared in Journal for the Study of Radicalism, Vol. 10, No. 2, 2016, pp. 19—52