Because of its geographical position by the Mediterranean and as a border town, people from Alicante have always been restless and turbulent. Without a doubt, this condition fostered the early appearance of socialism in our land, mostly in the cities of Alcoy and Alicante. It could even be said that one of the doors of
This is Part Two of the text Freedom published last week. ‘Much has been written about the Moors in various sections of the Left-Wing Press in this and other countries. They have been called the “scum of the earth,” “black riff-raff,” “mercenaries,” and other such names […] It is not the politically backward Moors who
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 readers might be made aware of the Spanish anarchist approach to Morocco during the civil war. I would like to thank Jeff for prompting me to write what follows, although
In an interview with world famous Dutch-Canadian journalist Pierre Van Paassen, Anarcho-Syndicalist leader and Spanish Loyalist general Buenaventura Durruti said: “We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry with our revolution than the whole Red Army of Russia. We are setting an example to the German and Italian working class on how to
In this archive article from Anarchy Number 5, Philip Holgate looks at the Congres of Zaragoza, which took place in May 1936. ON MAY 1st 1936 THE CNT held a national congress at Zaragoza, in an atmosphere of impending crisis. The Spanish general elections in February had resulted in the replacement of the right-wing government
Three decades after Criminal Justice Act took away legal duty, FOI requests reveal systemic racism across the UK ~ Lulu Smith ~ A newly-released report highlights the lack of transit provisions for Romany Gypsies, Irish Travellers and other travelling families across the UK.
This killing, this individual act of war, would mean nothing, and get no support, if it wasn’t a shot fired in a war that was already ongoing ~ Madeline Silver ~ Imagine, if you will, a thought experiment, in Minecraft, many miles away.
Campaigners and artists remain quietly active despite China’s tightening control ~ Levon Kwok ~ On 19 October, 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong were sentenced to prison for subversion.
Guys like him shoot a CEO one day, and a lot of kids on another—they just hide their personal reasons behind “brutal honesty” ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ The last days have been full of news about Luigi Mangione, the shooter of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.
Keeping the flame of anarchist agitation alive and spreading throughout the city, meetings between anti-authoritarian individuals and those eager for change, and distributing books and publications—we gathered in the hall of the Acadêmicos da Orgia Samba School ~ Anarchist News Agency ~ On the walls and outside of the hall in Porto Alegre, Brazil, banners
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