De la unidad antifascista a la desunión libertaria

This article focuses on the impact of the popular-frontist tactic within the libertarian movement from the coup of July 1936 up to the «May events» of 1937, when the leaders of the CNT and FAI stubbornly defended «democratic collaboration» in a context of antifascist struggle. This policy, so far re...

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Main Author: Chris Ealham
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Casa de Velázquez 2011-04-01
Series:Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/3874
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description This article focuses on the impact of the popular-frontist tactic within the libertarian movement from the coup of July 1936 up to the «May events» of 1937, when the leaders of the CNT and FAI stubbornly defended «democratic collaboration» in a context of antifascist struggle. This policy, so far removed from the traditional revolutionary aspirations of organised anarchism, was accompanied by many changes of direction in the anarchist movement, such as the entry of anarchists in popular-front governments in Catalonia and the Republic, or the bureaucratisation of the libertarian movement. The article analyses the tensions between the governmental role of the anarchist ministers and the popular revolution that followed the military coup of July 1936, and the growing tensions between a radical grass-roots sector of anarchism and the so-called higher committees.
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De la unidad antifascista a la desunión libertaria
Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez
Anarchism
Civil War
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
Popular Front
Spain
title De la unidad antifascista a la desunión libertaria
title_full De la unidad antifascista a la desunión libertaria
title_fullStr De la unidad antifascista a la desunión libertaria
title_full_unstemmed De la unidad antifascista a la desunión libertaria
title_short De la unidad antifascista a la desunión libertaria
title_sort de la unidad antifascista a la desunion libertaria
topic Anarchism
Civil War
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
Popular Front
Spain
url http://journals.openedition.org/mcv/3874
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