Episode 46: Hotel Lux with Maurice J. Casey
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Notes on radical history, translations etc.
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Episode 45: Another War is Possible
Episode 45 of ABC with Danny and Jim is is now live, you can listen to it here:
The Struggle Against Chauvinism – Federico G. Ruffinelli
Published in Ruta, weekly newspaper of the Catalan branch of the Libertarian Youth, 8 October 1938.
Episode 44: Blood in the Machine
Episode 44 of ABC with Danny and Jim is is now live, you can listen to it here.
Episode 43: Land and Freedom, with Andy Durgan
Episode 43 of ABC with Danny and Jim is now live, you can listen to it here
Episode 42: The Paris Commune with Carolyn Eichner
Episode 42 of ABC with Danny and Jim is now available here.
Abraham Guillén, 'The Military Error of "the Left"'
What follows is the first fruit of preparation for a forthcoming ABC Bitesize episode about Abraham Guillén’s book, El error militar de las ‘izquierdas’.
Valeriano Orobón Fernández in 1920
On Dictatorship and Unions
María Rius – Lola Iturbe
The first Anarchist Book Club pamphlet, a translation of Víctor García’s biography of José Xena, is now available.
New pamphlet: José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography by Víctor García
Details and Introduction
Three fragments on ‘the militant’
The following are extracts taken from the Antología del anarcosindicalismo (Montady: Ediciones Ruta-BASE, 1988), a remarkable volume put together by Víctor García (Germinal Gracia).
Resolution proposed by Camillo Berneri at the Congress of the IWMA in Paris, 15-16 November 1936
Translated from Paola Feri and Luigi Di Lembo (eds), Camillo Berneri: epistolario inedito, volume secondo (Pistoia: Edizioni Archivio Famiglia Berneri, 1984), p. 278.
A note on the anarchist agrupación
Photo of an outing organised by the agrupación Faros, published in La Revista Blanca, 15 August 1932, p.
For the autonomy of the municipality – José Xena
Ideas, 21 January 1937
Five Misrepresentations of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia
Homage to Catalonia (1938) is the most famous book on the Spanish Civil War in the English language, but there is a tendency amongst both its admirers and detractors to misrepresent its contents.
Against Collaboration
Anarquía, n. 3, 12 July 1937 (Barcelona)
Activism and underground resistance in France – Germinal Gracia
Tomás Gracia Ibars (1919-1991), known to friends and comrades as Germinal, and to a wider audience by the pseudonym Víctor García, was a Spanish anarchist who participated in the revolution and civil war.
The Unconquerable - Lucía Sánchez Saornil
First published in S.I.A, 9 March 1939.
1 April 1939 - Eduardo de Guzmán
Extracts translated from Eduardo de Guzmán, La muerte de la esperanza (Madrid: G.
Hobsbawm in Puigcerdà
Shortly after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, during a holiday in the Pyrenees, the nineteen-year-old Eric Hobsbawm spent an afternoon in the Catalan town of Puigcerdà, on the Spanish side of the border.