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The latter sentiment is expressed by historian Antony Beevor in his Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. [ 78 ] The justification for this operation (whose "very harsh measures" shocked even some Party members) was that since all the collectives had been established by force, Líster was merely liberating the peasants.
Following the 1936 general election in Spain, the Catalonia's pro-People's Sports Committee (Catalan: Comitè Català pro-Esport Popular, CCPEP), supported by the Government of Catalonia, as well as by the newly elected Spanish Popular Front government, advocated for the boycott of Spain to the Berlin Olympics in Nazi Germany and the ...
The anti-austerity movement in Spain, also referred to as the 15-M Movement (Spanish: Movimiento 15-M), [2] and the Indignados Movement, [3] was a series of protests, demonstrations, and occupations against austerity policies in Spain that began around the local and regional elections of 2011 and 2012.
Mutualism subsequently gained widespread popularity throughout Spain, becoming the dominant tendency within the Spanish federal republican movement by the 1860s. [3] It was around this time that the revolutionary socialist ideas of Mikhail Bakunin , based in collectivism , a focus on direct action and a militant anti-clericalism , also began to ...
The May Days (Catalan: Fets de Maig, Spanish: Jornadas de Mayo), sometimes also called May Events (Catalan: Sucessos de Maig, Spanish: Sucesos de Mayo, Hechos de Mayo), were a series of clashes between 3 and 8 May 1937 during which factions on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War engaged one another in street battles in various parts of Catalonia, centered on the city of Barcelona.
Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses: 1941–1951: Iraq: Iraqi Jews: Farhud [4] Mohandas Gandhi Indian independence movement: British Raj: Desired economic independence for India: Swadeshi movement: 1955–1968: African Americans: Various: Racial segregation in the United States: Civil Rights Movement Montgomery bus boycott: 1961–1983: West ...
Most of Spain's World Cup-winning players ended their boycott of the women's national team early Wednesday after the government intervened to help shape an agreement that was expected to lead to ...
Podemos (Spanish:, translated in English as "We Can") [c] is a left-wing [13] [14] [15] to far-left [16] [17] [18] political party in Spain.Founded in January 2014 by the political scientist Pablo Iglesias Turrión as part of the anti-austerity movement in Spain, [19] [20] the party is currently led by Secretary-general Ione Belarra.