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Ready for Revolution
The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938
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eBook - ePub
Ready for Revolution
The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938
About this book
Seeing the writing on the wall, one of Spain's largest unions began secretly arming workers throughout the country. The anarcho-syndicalist union evolved from overseeing workers' defense to organizing armed resistance to the Fascist coup. From there, it administered entire militias and finally coordinated industrial self-management and food distribution, leading a revolution within the Spanish Civil War. A fascinating new history and a lively narrative of ordinary men and women making history.
Agustín Guillamón is an independent historian and the author of The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937–39 and The Committees Revolution.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Information
- Dedication
- Translator’s note
- Introduction: Ready for Revolution
- 1: From the Shapiro Report to the October 1934 Working Party Resolution
- 2: The Local Revolutionary Preparedness Committee
- 3: Differentiating between Defense Groups, Affinity Groups, and Action Groups
- 4: The Barcelona FAI Critiques the Nosotros Group’s Notions of “Army” and “Power” (1936)
- 5: The Worker Uprising of 19–20 July 1936: The Defense Committees See Off the Army
- 6: The Revolutionary Ward Committees, the People’s Militias, and the Revolutionary Situation in July 1936
- 7: The Assembly-Driven Modus Operandi of the Defense and Supplies Committees
- 8: From the CAMC’S Military Failure to Militarization
- 9: The Defense Committees, All or Nothing at All. From Potential Organs of Worker Power to Mere Armed Adjuncts of the Trade Unions
- 10: The Bread War: Comorera versus the Barrio Committees
- 11: The Barcelona FAI Radicalized by the Defense Committees
- 12: The Defense Committees in May 1937 and Their Final Dissolution
- Documentary Appendix 1: The Division of Labour among the Six-member Defense Cadre109
- Documentary Appendix 2: “The Friends of Durruti Group. To the Working Class.”110
- Bibliography
- Author’s Glossary
- Index
- Gallery of Images
- About AK Press