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LA REVOLUCIÓN DE OCTOBRE 1934
Asturias, October 1934
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Ochenta años de la fecha cuando estalló el movimiento de Octubre 1934, y es preciso asegurarnos que momentos históricos como éste no permanezcan olvidados ni escondidos. “La revolución Asturiana se inició en la madrugada del 5 de Octubre de 1934, hasta...
THE ALBERT MEMORIAL
The Anarchist Life and Times of Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 — 7 May 1996). An Appreciation by Phil Ruff, with a postscript by ‘Acrata’.
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Albert Meltzer was probably one of the most notable and influential figures in the British anarchist movement of the second half of the 20th century. This commemorative appreciation of Albert’s life and work by his close friend and comrade, ‘Black Flag’ cartoonist Phil Ruff also includes contributions...
by Farquhar McHarg
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2014
Paris, 1976: Gunmen kill Farquhar McHarg’s lifelong friend and fellow anarchist, forcing him into a race to document an epic history before he too is silenced. The first volume finds him dropped into Barcelona’s revolutionary underworld at the end of the great imperialist war of 1914–1918, recruited...
THE REVOLUTIONARY PROJECT
Towards a sociology of the events of May-June 1968
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
A ‘sociological’ study of ‘The May Events’ of France 1968 by French Council Communist Richard Gombin, a libertarian analysis (focusing primarily on events between May 3 and 13 June) that examines the links between the leftist groups (the ‘groupuscules’) and the various factors that contributed...
by Victor García
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Entre las fechas del 29 al 30 de junio de 1962 estallaron en Barcelona tres bombas: una en las proximidades de un local de la Falange Española, otra en el Colegio Mayor Monterols, se sospechaba en esos años que pertenecía al Opus Dei, la tercera en el Instituto Nacional de Previsión....
by Peter Arshinov
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Peter Arshinov first met and befriended Nestor Makhno in prison in 1911, a friendship that continued after their release following the February Revolution in 1917. In 1919 Arshinov became Makhno's secretary, and remained with the Makhnovists until 1921. The following year, 1922, he escaped into exile...
Atado y bien atado
Ejercito, Guerrilla, Iglesia y robo de niños
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Juan Busquets, former guerrilla and author of Twenty Years in Franco’s Jails. An Anarchist in Franco’s Prisons, explains how Franco’s victims, especially the maquis, have been deliberately written out of history by Spain’s post-Francoist governments. His starting point is that the current...
THE FALSE BARON VON KÖNIG
A dossier
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2015
The so-called ‘Baron von König’ has been of interest to historians of the Spanish anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movements since 1918, mainly because of his relationship with Superintendent Manuel Bravo Portillo, head of the Barcelona’s Special Services Brigade (the then Brigada Politico-Social);...
Cuando la patria mata
La historia del anarquista Julio Rebosio (1914-1920)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 15, 2014
El libro del historiador Víctor Muñoz Cortés “Cuando la patria mata. La historia del anarquista Julio Rebosio (1914-1920)” es una biografía social que permite adentrarnos en el apasionante mundo de la historia ácrata en su “etapa esplendorosa” en Chile, hacia...
IN THE SOCIAL STORM
Memoirs of the Russian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2017
Boris Yelensky’s memoir charts the history of the Russian anarchist movement in the early years of the 20th Century. Told in prosaic yet detailed fashion, unadorned by romanticism, it is his personal account of the turbulent period leading up to — and after — the successful take-over of the...
WORDS IN THE SNOW
A FILANDÓN
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This “Filandón is a collection of very short stories (by Juan Pedro Aparicio, Luis Mateo Díez and José María Merino) with parallel texts in Spanish and English, a format which makes learning either language so much easier than using a dictionary every few words. The filandón...
GEORDIES—WA MENTAL
WA OFF WA FUCKIN HEEDS!
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
Geordies — Wa Mental!, is the first volume in the autobiographical trilogy (Stardust and Coaldust) of David John Douglass, a coalminer for 40 years. It tells the fascinating story of the radicalisation of a working-class Geordie ‘baby-boomer’ during the first twenty years of his life, providing a unique and valuable insight into the political and cultural movements of the 1960s.
Captain Swing in Sussex and Kent: Rural Rebellion in 1830
The Untold Story of Rural Class War in the South-East
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2014
IN 1830, after the prolonged agricultural recession that followed the close of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, a series of riots swept across England’s southern counties. The outbreaks went on to spread, largely unchecked, into East Anglia, the Midlands and several northern counties, eventually to...
¡NOSOTROS LOS ANARQUISTAS!
Un Estudio de la Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) 1927-1937
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 17, 2014
Desde el nacimiento oficial del anarquismo organizado en el Congreso de Saint- Imier de 1872, ninguna formación anarquista se ha visto sujeta a una tergiversación tan flagrante como la Federación Anarquista Ibérica. La FAI era un grupo de militantes del siglo XX dedicado...