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by Alexander Berkman
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
On July 23, 1892, Alexander Berkman, an immigrant Russian Jew, idealist, and anarchist, forced his way into the Pittsburgh office of Henry Clay Frick in order to kill him. The assassination was, in the anarchist tradition, to be an attentat, a political deed of violence to awaken the consciousness...
by Fernando Gómez Peláez
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
With the death in September 2012 of Santiago Carrillo, the former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) (1960-1982), we can expect a few biographies of the ‘father of Eurocommunism’ over the coming years. So, as a matter of record, we are republishing an extensive review by ‘Frente...
by Hans Joachim Klein
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
“‘A fascinating and inside view of the tensions and way of life imposed by clandestinity . . . Police officers should find this book worth reading (though not, probably, worth buying) because it vividly illustrates the violence of the hatred which the ‘bourgeois society’ arouses in the extreme...
by Peter Kropotkin
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2017
“The man who is shut up in a prison is so far from being bettered by the change, that he comes out more resolutely the foe of society than he was when he went in.”
This statement is the animating principle of Peter Kropotkin's libertarian classic, IN RUSSIAN AND FRENCH PRISONS, first published...
EL AÑO DE LA VICTORIA
Vol 2: Memorias de la Guerra Civil Española 1936-39
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Eduardo de Guzmán: Nacido en Villada (Palencia) en 1909 pero residente en Madrid hace medio siglo, Eduardo de Guzmán inicía muy joven sus actividades profesionales trabajando en diversos periódicos. En 1930 es nombrado redactor jefe del diario madrileño «La...
by José García Pradas
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 22, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: July 22, 2016
... Contrastando la información queda claro que los objetivos de Casado diferían mucho de los planteamientos de los libertarios y de los caballeristas. De hecho, nadie creía en una rendición incondicional. Los libertarios desconfiaban de un personaje militar como Casado, que lo que pretendía...
MEMORIA HISTORICA
Las Relaciones Comerciales y Políticas Franco-Españolas y sus Repercusiones en las Actividades de los Refugiados Anti-Franquistas (1945-1964)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2017
En este compendio no examinaremos las relaciones franco-españolas en los años de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, con el régimen de Vichy, durante el cual el mariscal Philippe Petain accedió a ciertas peticiones dél gobierno franquista referentes a la extradición de dirigentes republicanos, algunos...
EL SINDICALISMO ESPAÑOL ANTES DE LA GUERRA CIVIL
Los Hijos del Trabajo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 31, 2015
RICARDO SANZ GARCÍA: Canals (Valencia), 5-11-1898 / Toulouse (Francia), 25-10-1986. Hijo de obreros agrícolas, desde muy joven trabajó en una fábrica de harinas hasta su marcha a Barcelona (1916), donde ingresa en CNT, sección tintoreros del textil (su oficio por...
Las Juventudes Libertarias en España
(Análisis Espectral)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2014
Es evidente que está de moda el editar muchas obras en torno a la historia del Movimiento Libertario Español, las Juventudes Libertarias y el Exilio Libertario. Sin embargo, ni la CNT o las Juventudes Libertarias del 36, ni la de la clandestinidad, ni la del exilo se ven todavía...
by Pietro Gori
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
In this 1904 pamphlet, italian anarchist composer and poet, Pietro Gori considers the moral and ethical evolution of human society from its origins to the present day. Gori challenges the bourgeois media's negative representation of anarchism as synonymous with disorder and violence: i.e., propaganda...
by Octavio Alberola
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Por razones generalmente partidistas, la resistencia libertaria contra el franquismo ha sido frecuentemente olvidada en la historiografía del antifranquismo. Pero este “olvido” es aún más notorio en el caso de la resistencia libertaria de los años sesenta, por ser en...
by Barry Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2014
MOSCOW 1991 to 1996. Following the collapse of Gorbachev’s Soviet Union, Norman ‘Nobby’ Jackson, Moscow-based failed business consultant and amateur Classicist turned private detective, again joins forces with his old sparring partner Colonel Lev Alexandrovitch Shcheglov, head of Moscow’s...
by Barry Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
MOSCOW 1987: With Gorbachev’s Soviet Union in a state of flux and uncertainty, Londoner Norman ‘Nobby’ Robert Jackson — amateur Classicist, fluent Russian-speaker, business consultant and blackmarketeer living comfortably in Moscow with two mistresses — is approached by a fellow British...
by André Héléna
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The action begins in occupied Perpignan a few days after the Allied landing on the Normandy coast. Stifled by his bourgeois parents, unappreciated by his contemporaries and by the opposite sex, the unprepossessing 19 year old Jacques Vallon discovers that the Occupation of his native France and the...