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During the Spanish Civil War, many anarchists outside of Spain criticized the CNT leadership for entering into government and compromising with communist elements on the Republican side. Those in Spain felt that this was a temporary adjustment, and that once Franco was defeated, they would continue in their libertarian ways.
The Spanish Revolution was a workers' social revolution that began at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 and for two to three years resulted in the widespread implementation of anarchist and, more broadly, libertarian socialist organizational principles throughout various portions of the country, primarily Catalonia, Aragon ...
Revolutionary Catalonia [1] (21 July 1936 – 8 May 1937) was the period in which the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeast Spain was controlled or largely influenced by various anarchist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era.
During the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona, Nosotros led the anarchist resistance to the coup, culminating in the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Group members then oversaw the organisation of the confederal militias, which participated in the war effort against the Spanish Nationalists.
The Regional Defence Council was based in Caspe and from there formed the main power of revolutionary Aragon. Their leaders soon declared that rural Aragon had become a "Spanish Ukraine" and that they would not allow themselves to be overwhelmed by Marxist militarism, as happened to Russian anarchism in 1921. [4]
The anarchist insurrection of December 1933 was an attempted revolution by Spanish anarchists, in response to the victory of the right-wing in the 1933 Spanish general election. It was the third of a series of anarchist insurrections in Spain, following those in January 1932 and January 1933.
During a 1933 anarchist uprising, they downed L'Hospitalet's power supply. [4] Unlike the expropriators, however, who sought to incite insurrection toward the anarchist revolution, the guerrillas known as the maquis, as a result of the Spanish Civil War, sought the fall of Franco first, as anarchist revolution became a remote possibility. [5]
The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years, 1868–1936 is a history of anarchism in Spain prior to its late 1930s civil war and social revolution written by anarchist Murray Bookchin and published in 1976 by Free Life Press.