Homage to Catalonia is a good read for a first person perspective into the conflict.
George Orwell himself was a democratic socialist and held strong sympathies with the anarchists, joining an International Brigade to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
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Seeking Information on Catalonia
I was wondering if anyone had any good resources on the worker's movement in Catalonia and its history. I'm having a hard time find stuff about it.
Thanks.
"Let Racist ignorance be ended,
For respect makes the empires fall!"-Bragg's Internationale
Homage to Catalonia is a good read for a first person perspective into the conflict.
George Orwell himself was a democratic socialist and held strong sympathies with the anarchists, joining an International Brigade to fight in the Spanish Civil War.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.-Noam Chomsky
Freedom is always the freedom of dissenters.-Rosa Luxemburg
Try Joan García Oliver autobiography, El eco de los pasos, it goes from the from before the tragic week and the pistolerismo all the way to the exile. Here's the link, although it is in spanish:
http://www.memorialibertaria.org/IMG...axbook-002.pdf
Para los pueblos de todo el mundo, que luchan por la paz, la democracia y el socialismo, el leninismo es como el sol que trae consigo una vida alegre. - Ho Chi Minh
Comunes el sol y el viento, común ha de ser la tierra, que vuelva común al pueblo, lo que del pueblo saliera
Maoism is (...) Marxism Leninism on cocaine - Rafiq
Pas de liberté pour les ennemis de la liberté - Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
El marxismo conlleva muchos principios que en últimas instancias se compendian en una sola frase: “es justo rebelarse contra los reaccionarios" - Mao Tse-Tung
Die Barrikaden schließen der Strasse aber geöffnet der Weg.
The BBC documentary in 6 parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81RhewkQbOk
Land and freedom
http://vimeo.com/17190850
Living Utopia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPl_Y3Qdb7Y
Here is an interview from some from CNT, but you must understand spanish
http://vimeo.com/11981533
Some links to some books:
http://books.google.dk/books?id=vcau...olution&f=true
http://books.google.dk/books?id=j7bY...lution&f=false
http://www.scribd.com/doc/25020337/T...ve-Sam-Dolgoff
Some more links and etc:
http://struggle.ws/spaindx.html
http://libcom.org/tags/spanish-civil-war
