Anarchism and Workers' Self-Management in Revolutionary Spain

Frank Mintz, Paul Sharkey

• Publisher: AK Press
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781849350785
• eBook ISBN: 9781849350792
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This is the first English translation of Frank Mintz's seminal study of the economic experiments put into place during the Spanish Revolution to both sustain civil society during the war and, more importantly, act as the material basis for a new society. These plans weren't developed by professional economists but grew out of a political movement that put working people at the fore and believed that the collectivized workplace would be the cornerstone of economic life. Includes a prologue by Chris Ealham, author of Anarchism and the City.

A retired professor of Spanish, Frank Mintz lives in Paris, France, and is active with the CNT labor union.

Table of contents

• Copyright Information
• Prologue
• Introduction: Self-Management and Anarcho-Syndicalism
• Chapter One: Introducing the Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement, the CNT
• Chapter Two: Catalonia as a Model: Self-Management ­Emerges in Barcelona; The First Contradictions
• Chapter Three: A Brief Survey of Self-Management in Other Regions of Spain
• Chapter Four: Organising Self-­Management across the Nation
• Chapter Five: Self-Management ­under Attack
• Chapter Six: Self-Management’s ­Outcomes: Overall Conclusions and Estimates
• Chapter Seven: Conclusions about Self-Management in 1936­–1939, and Broad Reflections
• Appendices: Introduction
• Appendix I: Notes on the Spanish People’s ­Superficial Catholicism
• Appendix II: Revolutionary Uprisings in Spain, 1932–1934
• Appendix III: One Example of Monetary Reform and Scheme for Currency Circulation in a Social Economy296
• Appendix IV: The CNT and the FAI: Pressure Groups (1998 [revised 2005])
• Appendix V: The Two Libertarian Communisms, or, the Libertarian Party versus ­Anarcho-Syndicalism (revised 2005)
• Appendix VI: Notes on Governmental Collaboration
• Appendix VII: Making Sense of the Plenum of ­Confederal Militias and Columns
• Appendix VIII: Evidence about the Collectives of Ascó and Flix (Tarragona), and the Barcelona Barbers’ Collective360
• Appendix IX: The Madrid Peasants’ Collective361
• Appendix X: The Adra Fishermen’s Collective364
• Appendix XI: The Artesa de Lérida Collective365
• Appendix XII: The Barbastro Comarcal Federation of Collectives366
• Appendix XIII: UGT CNT CLUEA. Citrus Fruit Exports from Revolutionary Spain, 1936–1937367
• Appendix XIV: The Establishment, Growth and ­Operation of the Barcelona and ­District Locksmiths’ and Corrugated Shutters Collective378
• Appendix XV: Marx, Engels, the CP, Councilism, ­Historians and Revolutionary Spain
• Appendix XVI: Francoism, Transition to Democracy and Thoughts on Collective ­Management (written 1997–1998)
• Glossary of Terms and Initials Used in the Text
• Index
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