Spain

Molders of the Idea: Women in Anarchist Printed Culture

From Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo

Parallel to the congress Editors and translators beyond borders: women in the transnational anarchist culture (1890-1939), which will take place at the UC3M Campus in Puerta de Toledo (Madrid) between 19 and 21 March, at the Madrid headquarters of the FAL you can visit the exhibition Molders of the idea: women in the anarchist printed culture (visitable from 19 March to 26 April).

The inspiring Spanish anarchist collectives: Look what we must do!

The inspiring Spanish anarchist collectives: Look what we must do!

From resilience dot org by Ted Trainer

We are entering can era of severe scarcity in which centralised and top-down systems will fail to provide for us and we will have to develop cooperative and self-sufficient localized economies. The achievements of the Spanish anarchist workers collectives in the 1930s show what miracles ordinary people can do.

Jaime (Jacques) Serra (1915-2023)

From Le CIRA de Marseille
January 12, 2024

On September 26, 2023, Jacques Serra, the oldest member of CIRA, celebrated his 108th birthday. He passed away some time later, surrounded by his family, on November 4, 2023. One of the last protagonists of the Spanish Libertarian Revolution has passed away.

Spain: Formation of the Albacete Mountain Anarchist Group

From Grupo Anarquista de Montaña de Albacete
December 21, 2023

Faced with the brutalized and monetized capitalist leisure and sports, Albacete's libertarian sensibility is organized to offer alternatives:

Last Wednesday, November 1, a group of anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist militants met in an assembly with the aim of forming the Albacete Mountain Anarchist Group, as well as to make the first agreements for its operation.

Police install a camera to spy on a squat in the district of Gràcia

Police install a camera to spy on a squat in the district of Gràcia

From squat dot net, Barcelona, Spain

A camera hidden in a dark box on the roof of a restaurant monitored the activity of a squat house in the Gràcia district of Barcelona, at least since December 22 when it was detected. As disseminated by the group Ègida -Defensa Collectiva Anarquista, the video surveillance team focused directly on the door of the squat, which is why they rule out that it is the restaurant’s security system.

The Patacons, a libertarian band in the Prades Mountains

From Kate Sharpley Library
By Imanol

The Patacons, a libertarian band in the Prades Mountains

Unlike other Catalan guerrilla bands which came down from France, the Patacons operated in and around Tarragona and were firmly rooted in the area

Mari Luz Braojos, historical figure and exemplary CGT activist, dies

From En Clase
October 16, 2023

Mari Luz Braojos, the first woman to hold the position of Secretary General of the Local Federation of Granada of the CGT and one of the first at the national level, has died. In the early hours of today, according to her relatives, Mari Luz Braojos, a historical figure of the CGT in Granada, and the first woman to hold the position of General Secretary in Spain, has died.

A new rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism

A new rupture in Spanish anarcho-syndicalism

From CEDAS-ASCED

Spanish anarcho-syndicalism has experienced a new rupture. The crisis had been brewing for a long time. It came to an end between 2015 and 2017. The CNT-AIT and CNT-CIT (or CNT©1) are now two distinct organizations. In the international libertarian movement, this conflict is little known, or it is observed with irony and condescension: a ridiculous battle over the CNT acronyms, when there are many other more urgent battles to be fought…

Spain: Anarchists assemble picket lines for IKEA dispute

Spain: Anarchists assemble picket lines for IKEA dispute

From Freedom News UK

The Madrid section of Spain’s long-running CNT-AIT anarchist union is taking on the famous furniture maker in an effort to force bosses to fold in a dispute at one of its suppliers. In the below statement, organisers explain the situation and call on trade unionists to act in support.


The death of our compañero Rafa Cigüenza, a great anarcho-syndicalist

From CGT Aragón – La Rioja
July 23, 2023

These words of the great American poet Walt Whitman reflect the pain and sadness for the loss of a dear compañero, but also the steadfast perseverance and determination he inspired, the encouragement he always showed, and his own affirmation as a human being, individual and collective at the same time.

Fictitious splits over the Spanish Revolution

In this newly discovered photo by Kati Horna, three boys play in a palace that had been converted into a school in 1937.

From red & black notes by Matt Crossin

David Glanz, a member of the Trotskyist organisation Solidarity, recently gave a talk on the Spanish Revolution, offering it as evidence of the ‘failure of anarchism’. The talk is reasonably representative of the standard Leninist position, and therefore follows the same tendency to misrepresent both the events in Spain and the content of anarchist theory. In misrepresenting anarchism, Glanz is unable to recognise that the real failure of the anarchist movement in Spain was in breaking with anarchist ideas, rather than implementing them. Furthermore, an honest accounting of the facts shows that the anarchist idea of revolution, as theorised by the original and historically dominant ‘mass’ (or ‘social’) tendency, is entirely in line with the revolutionary strategy that Glanz describes as the Leninist alternative.

El Flaco, our dear Horacio Suarez, has died

From Acción Socialista Libertaria (requires Facebook account)
July 5, 2023

Yesterday morning we were alerted to the death of a compañero on the other side of the Atlantic. We were informed that, as foreseen by the medical reports, the most dire prognoses were confirmed.

Controversy over event organized by CNT Barcelona

by Sonia Muñoz Llort (facebook link)
July 15, 2023

Some might experience we live in dystopian times.

The last 3 years weird alliances made by hate and oppression have arised, and today a talk organized by the CNT Barcelona has showed how anarchomachos and internal hierarchies can’t exist in anarchist spaces.

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