Showing Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution by Jose Peirats

Translated from Los anarquistas en la crisis politica espanola (1962), this is the most comprehensive, critical history of the Spanish Civil War 1936-39, and the role played in it by the CNT-FAI, the anarcho-syndicalists and anarchists. The first hundred pages are a brief survey of the working class movement in Spain, going back to the foundation of the Spanish section of the First International in 1869, and the political struggles which were a prelude to the Civil War. An appendix. In 1988 Jose Peirats wrote a history of Spanish anarchists and anarcho-syndicalists in exile after 1939, which he apparently intended as an appendix to this book. To have added it as an appendix to this edition, however, would have prohibitively increased the cost. It is published in full, under the title 'Spanish anarchism in exile' in The Raven number 23 (Freedom Press, £3 post-free anywhere), with other essays on Spain under Franco and after. The cover picture was released to the press by the Defence Council of the Catalan government in 1936/37.