Spanish revolution


What We Believe - WSM Points of Unity Explained (Audio)




The Spanish Revolution: A quick introduction



The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action





The revolutionary message of the 'Friends of Durruti'



Industrial Collectivisation during the Spanish Revolution



Mujeres Libres - Free Women of Spain


Conditions for the vast majority of people in Spain in the 1920s and 1930s were appalling. For women they were especially bad. There were extreme gender divisions. Most women were economically dependent on men. Household chores and childcare were exclusively women's domain. In both countryside and city women's wages were lower than men's. For example the average daily wage of a male agricultural labourer was 3 pesetas while a women got just half this, for working from dawn to dusk.

The Anarchist Collectives in the Countryside during the Spanish Civil War


Many people, upon hearing about Anarchism, consider a society based on anarchist principles as unrealistic, idealistic and naive - the vision of dreamers. Given the homogenous view of the world represented in the media, it is often difficult for people to imagine a society where such universally accepted institutions as the state, the judiciary system, the police, armies, and nations no longer exist.

Video - Living Utopia - The Anarchists and the Spanish Revolution









Shadows of a revolution - Nick Lloyd's Spanish civil war walking tour reviewed


Ask an anarchist for an example of a time and place where their ideas were put to the test and they will most likely reply with “Barcelona, 1936”. In July of that year, the workers of Barcelona, mainly organised around the anarcho-syndicalist Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT; "National Confederation of Labour") rose in opposition to the fascist generals' coup that was gripping the south of the Spanish state.

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