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NoPasaran1936
31st March 2012, 02:10
Preferably about structure and any battles the anarchists fought. Hoping for some online reads.
Cheers

x359594
31st March 2012, 06:32
The recently published The Story of the Iron Column: Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War by Abel Paz is excellent. A more general work but one that also talks about the anarchist militias is Robert J. Alexander's The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War in two volumes.

As for online material about anarchism in the Spanish Civil War, here are two sites: http://struggle.ws/spaindx.html and http://www.oocities.org/capitolhill/9820/

Ostrinski
31st March 2012, 06:41
I liked Durruti In the Spanish Civil War by Paz.

daft punk
31st March 2012, 14:30
Felix Morrow

Revolution and Counter Revolution in Spain

Source: Revolution and Counter Revolution in Spain, by Felix Morrow, published by New Park Publications Limited, 186a Clapham High Street, London, SW11, England, 1963. Printed in Great Britain by Plough Press Ltd., Clapham, London.
First Published: 1938.
Transcribed: by Ted Crawford.
Bibliographical Note

This book was first published in 1938 by Pioneer in the United States. An expanded edition which contained Morrow’s much shorter Civil War in Spain pamphlet was published in the United States by Pathfinder Press in 1974 with a new index and copies may still be available from them. Note the reference to Civil War in Spain by Morrow in Note 1 of Chapter 2 The Bourgeois ‘Allies’ in the People’s Front.
The text of the following book is that of the second Edition of 1963 published by New Park Publications together with the introduction written at that date by the late Tom Kemp. At the time, and for some years afterwards, the Socialist Labour League in Britain, who controlled New Park, was politically allied with the Socialist Workers Party in the United States, who controlled Pioneer/Pathfinder. The type of this edition was reset with English spellings etc. and the book was given its own index. Since it is now out of print, Index Books, the successor to New Park Publications, is consequently delighted that this important text is available, if only on the web, as they have no plans to reprint it.
It has been transcribed by Ted Crawford in 2003 and any errors and omissions are his responsibility. Notes have been placed at the end of the chapters and numbered rather than placed at the bottom of the page and the very occasional typographical errors removed. Any notes added are clearly stated to have been done by him and signed ERC.
Contents

Foreword (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/foreword.htm)
1 Why the Fascists Revolted (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch01.htm)
2 The Bourgeois ‘Allies’ in the Peoples Front (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch02.htm)
3 The Revolution of July 19 (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch03.htm)
4 Towards a Coalition with the Bourgeoisie (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch04.htm)
5 The Politics of the Spanish Working Class (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch05.htm)
6 The Programme of the Caballero Coalition Government (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch06.htm)
7 The Programme of the Catalan Government (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch07.htm)
8 Revival of the Bourgeois State: September 1936 – April 1931 (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch08.htm)
9 The Counter-Revolution and the Masses (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch09.htm)
10 The May Days: Barricades in Barcelona (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch10.htm)
11 The Dismissal of Largo Caballero (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch11.htm)
12 ‘El Gobierno de la Victoria’ (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch12.htm)
13 The Conquest of Catalonia (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch13.htm)
14 The Conquest of Aragon (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch14.htm)
15 The Military Struggle under Giral, and Caballero (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch15.htm)
16 The Military Struggle under Negrin-Prieto (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch16.htm)
17 Only Two Roads (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/ch17.htm)
18 Postscript (http://www.marxists.org/archive/morrow-felix/1938/revolution-spain/postscript.htm)

x359594
31st March 2012, 17:51
Another book that comes to mind is The Anarchists of Casas Viejas by Jerome Minzt. This is an account of the Andalusian village whose CNT branch rose in revolt in January 1933.

NoPasaran1936
1st April 2012, 17:39
Thanks comrades! I love reading about this on wikipedia, but want more indepth analysis, and description of how they organised, trained and fought.