A Spanish Revolution Reading List
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On this day in 1936, fascists in Spain launched a coup to topple the country’s Republican government. They got more than they bargained for: within days workers and peasants across the country fought back for a world without government.This, of course, seems like a good time to share a sampling of the many, many titles we carry that study and celebrate history’s most thoroughgoing anarchist revolution. Let’s start with books: |
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[click on the image to go to a book’s web page]
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Ready for Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933–1938 |
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And here are some pamphlets from the Kate Sharpley Library, which can always be counted on to find untold stories and underrepresented angles on all aspects of anarchist history:
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Valeriano Orobon Fernandez: Towards the Barricades Salvador Cano Carrillo |
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News of the Spanish Revolution: Anti-authoritarian Perspectives on the Events Stew Charlatan |
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Free Society: A German Exile in Revolutionary Spain Werner Droescher |
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Anarchism in Galicia: Organisation, Resistance and Women in the Underground Eliseo Fernández, Antón Briallos, and Carmen Blanco |
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Wrong Steps: Errors In The Spanish Revolution Juan Garcia Oliver |
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A Day Mournful And Overcast An ‘uncontrollable’ from the Iron Column |
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Unknown Heroes: Biographies of Anarchist Resistance Fighters Miguel Garcia |
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My Revolutionary Life Juan Garcia Oliver interviewed by Freddy Gomez |