The lifelong CNT militant was part of the Cuban revolution and participated in physical resistance to Franco ~ Joselito ~ Octavio Alberola Suriñac…
Octavio Alberola Suriñach (1928-2025)
Tag: Spanish civil war
Continuing the fight: Three anarchists from Spain in the British army, 1939-1945
But what was evident was that many of these veterans felt that Britain had let them down by not going after Franco next.
The anarchists in Alicante
Because of its geographical position by the Mediterranean and as a border town, people from Alicante have always been restless and turbulent.
Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
This is Part Two of the text Freedom published last week.
Carrying the war into Africa? Anarchism, Morocco, and the Spanish Civil War
I was approached by Jeff Stein to write up a summary of Abel Paz, La cuestión de Marruecos y la República española so that English-language read…
Southwark Spain Shop: anti-fascist shop in 1930s Walworth Road
This text first appeared at Transpontine blog.
Anarcho-Syndicalist Workers’ Revolution in Catalonia
In an interview with world famous Dutch-Canadian journalist Pierre Van Paassen, Anarcho-Syndicalist leader and Spanish Loyalist g…
Last surviving British member of International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War dies
Geoffrey Servante, almost certainly the last surviving British member of the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War passed away last Sunda…
Almost 3000 people murdered by Franco’s fascists in Madrid finally named
Several historians managed to put together a list of 2,964 people murdered at cemetery of Almudena in Madrid during the first years of the dictator…
A year through anarchist eyes: 1950
Rob Ray takes a unique run through the pages of Freedom in 1950, a time when anarchism was in a pretty dire state, but was starting to gain tractio…
1936: Eye-Witnesses to Revolutionary loyalist Spain
As Catalonia continues to simmer, Raymond S.
Double book analysis: Peter Davison on George Orwell
In this review and analysis piece, Raymond S.
¡Digan revolución!
Joe Herbert on the role of photojournalism during the Spanish civil war
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