Spanish Civil War

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Homage to Catalonia - Orwell

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The Civil War in Spain - Broue/Themin
Wrong Steps: Errors in the Spanish Revolution - Juan Garcia Oliver
The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937-9 – A. Guillamon

Soledad Estorach Esteri was born on the 6th February 1915 at the small village of Albatarrech near Lerida.

Maria was born into a family of day labourers and charcoal burners in the impoverished village of Casas Viejas in Andalucia on 20 April 1915.

FUNDACIÓN ANDREU NIN

International Volunteers in the POUM Militias
Andy Durgan

Greville Texidor was born in 1902 at Wolverhampton, the daughter of William Arthur Foster and Editha Greville Prideaux. Her father, a barrister, committed suicide in 1920 due to a scandal.

José Salamé Miro was born in the small village of Vinebra in the Catalan province of Tarragona. His childhood was spent in Barcelona.

Ferdinand Götze was born in Leipzig on March 28th, 1907, the son of the FAUD stalwart Anna Götze.

Self-Management and the Spanish Revolution

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"It is in Barcelona that the full force of the anarchist revolution becomes apparent. Their initials, CNT and FAI, are everywhere.

Born in Vasto near Chieti in the Abruzzi in 1898, Antonio Cieri served as an officer in the Italian Army during World War I and was decorated.

After the war he became active in the anarchist movement in Ancona. He got a job as a technical designer for the Italian railways.

Giuseppe Bifolchi aka Viola aka V
Born Balsorano, Italy 1895. Died Avezzano Italy 1978

Born in the Abruzzi in Balsorano on 20th February 1895

Pantaleon Casildo Arteaga discovered anarchist ideas at 18 and joined the anarcho-syndicalist union the CNT . At the beginning of the Francoist rising which sparked the Civil War, at the age of 24, he joined the Ascaso Column of the CNT-FAI (the FAI was the Iberian Anarchist Federation, linked to the CNT) and fought on the Aragon front.

“We have as our flag the love of culture, the cult of fraternity and liberty”

Published in the IWW's One Big Union Monthly, August, 1937

Gino Bibbi, born in February 1899, came from a family of ‘good standing’ from the village of Avenza near Carrara, with a father who owned a large joiners’ works.

Available here as a PDF.

In the late 1980s I attended a film in London about the achievements of anarchism and the Spanish civil war. At one point the elderly man sitting next to me began weeping quietly. Suddenly, the passion and the conviction of those events and commitments became manifest.

Russell Blackwell
Born 1904 - USA, died 1969 - USA

Born in 1904 in the Northern United States, a Yankee, Russell Blackwell learnt the profession of cartographer. He joined the Communist Party of the United States of America in the 1920s. He was sent to Mexico by the CPUSA to help organise the Communist youth movement there, under the name of Rosalio Negrete.

Pedro Vallina Martinez was born at Guadalcanal near Seville on 29 June 1879. He studied for his baccalaureate in Seville, and then moved to Cadiz where he became a convinced anarchist militant, thanks to the writings of the outstanding anarchist Fermin Salvochea.