Info on violence by Anarchists in Spain.

[Nusocialist]

Does anyone have any good info and links of the attacks on fascist, capitalists and priests in Spain? Particularly revolving around the actions of anarchists and anarchist organisations and particularly for refuting cappe lies.

[syndicat]

There is a fairly balanced discussion of violence against civilians on both sides in the oral history "Blood of Spain" altho this doesn't go specifically into the case of priests. One thing to keep in mind is that the Roman Catholic Church was split. The Basque Catholic Church supported the anti-fascist side because the facsists were Castilian chauvinists who aimed to destroy Basque and Catalan autonomy. The Castilian Church hierarchy officially endorsed the fascist military revolt, calling it a cruzada (holy crusade). In towns taken by the army, a purge committee was set up with a local police official, a rep of the falange, a local landower, military person, and a local priest. These committees systematically rounded up leftists and killed them and put their bodies in mass graves. In the early '20s Church officials were involved in funding the death squads that killed hundreds of members and officials of the CNT in Catalonia. They were supporting a Church backed union, the Sindicatos Libres, which had a fascist corporatist ideology and were run by devout Catholic workers from the skilled worker elite. When the military dictatorship of the late '20s collapsed in 1930, the Sindicatos Libres collapsed as well.

[abbielives!]

as always the FAQ is a good place to start:

I.8.7 I've heard that the rural collectives were created by force. Is this true?