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by José Peirats Valls
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
José Peirats's 'The CNT in the Spanish Revolution' is a landmark in the historiography of the Spanish Civil War. Without it, the role of anarchism in that conflict could never be reconstructed. It is effectively the official CNT history of the war, passionate, partisan but, above all, intelligent....
by Emeterio Díez
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
‘Pedagogical imperatives also come to the fore within Emeterio Diez’s discussion of the role of film in the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. The films of the CNT-FAI, in addition to having performed the traditional functions of agitation and propaganda traditionally embraced by a political faction...
THE ANARCHIST COLLECTIVES
Workers’ Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Sam Dolgoff, editor of the best anthology of Bakunin's writings, has now produced an excellent documentary history of the Anarchist collectives in Spain. Although there is a vast literature on the Spanish Civil War, this is [was] the first book in English that is devoted to the experiments in workers'...
A NEW WORLD IN OUR HEARTS
The Faces of Spanish Anarchism
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
A NEW WORLD IN OUR HEARTS, The Faces of Spanish Anarchism, Edited by Albert Meltzer. Contributors: Albert Meltzer; Frank Mintz; José Peirats; Gaston Leval; Andrew Giles Peters. Originally published 1978 by Cienfuegos Press, Sanday, Orkney. Over the course of 120 pages, through a series of interlinked...
by Gaston Leval
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This is not yet another book about the Civil War, and its author is not yet another academic jumping on the Spanish band wagon. The book is about what Burnett Bolloten in the opening paragraph of his remarkable book (‘The Spanish Civil War. Revolution and Counterrevolution’) calls “a far reaching...
by Carlos Semprún Maura
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
First published in France in 1974 (while still a ‘leftist’), a “critical analysis of the bureaucratization of the CNT, with regard to both the political as well as the economic terrain”, bureaucratization which the author claims was “total and complete”, with discussions of certain historical...
by Isaac Puente Amestoy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
‘Economic pressures compel the individual to co-operate in the economic life of the locality. These same economic pressures ought to be felt by the collectives, obliging them to co-operate in the economic life of the nation. But to accomplish this needs no central council or supreme committee, which...
THE DA VINCI CON
The Code War or Jiggery-Pokery in Rennes Le Château
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
Since the birth of speculative freemasonry in the early 17th century, large numbers of intelligent and otherwise well-informed, sane and sensible people have believed that much of what was happening around them only occurred because it was set in motion by secret societies, the motors of history....
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
An anarchist critique of John Rawls' 'A Theory of Justice'. Since its publication in 1971 the political ideas expounded by philosopher John Rawls in A Theory of Justice have provided the justifiers and apologists (i.e., the informers and the regulators who, respectively, mould opinion and behaviour...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Until the end of the eighteenth century one of the most important developments in warfare, apart from the invention of gunpowder and the adoption of firearms, had ‘been the superseding of feudal military organisation by professional, mercenary, troops’. By the end of the fifteenth century the...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Stuart Christie looks at the history and power base of the ‘Brotherhood’— the West’s largest secret society. If secrecy is to be considered a factor in British politics and commerce then without doubt Freemasonry is one of its principal vehicles. Freemasonry is the largest semi-covert organisation...
THE GOLDEN ROAD TO SAMARKAND
THE GOLDEN ROAD TO SAMARKAND: A speculative look at the SAS as contemporary Knights Kadosh - the State's 30￮ hit men
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
A speculative look at the culture, history and political role of the Special Air Service Regiment as a warrior elite and ‘parallel enforcement body’ within the British sphere of influence. This article first appeared in the Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review Vol 1 No 6 (Summer 1982) and was reprinted...
OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR
When War Became 'Not Only Inevitable But Also Desirable'
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
WITH THE CURRENT centennial chatter on the whys and wherefores of the First World War, not much has been said about the preceding general European social crisis as a force for international tension in 1914. The debate on the origins of the war has long revolved around ascribing responsibility for...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
THE NORTH AMERICAN NEW LEFT was a protest-oriented movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In its early, developmental stage New Left theories evolved primarily from the trial-and-error experiences of its most dynamic constituent groups and individuals. It was, essentially, a response by liberal activists...