An account by Pablo Ruiz of his contact and activity with Jaime Balius in the Spanish Civil War and Friends of Durruti group, written after Balius's death in 1981
Mattick ponders the then-recent events of May 1937 - when the counter-revolutionary consequences of the CNT and POUM's compromises with bourgeois democracy and Stalinism became deadly reality.
Although it was in the countryside where the most far-reaching
anarchist socialisation took place, the revolution took place in the
cities and the towns too. At that time in Spain almost 2 million out
of a total population of 24 million worked in industry, 70% of which
was concentrated in one area - Catalonia. There, within hours of the
An account of the fighting in Barcelona in May 1937 when the Communists consolidated their hold on power and turned decisively against the anarchists and revolutionary workers
A letter from an American trade unionist and member of the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) about his experiences as a fighter in the Spanish Civil War and Revolution of 1936-9 in the International section of the anarchist Durruti Column.
