Anarchist Organisation is the first English-language history of the 30,000-member Federacion Anarquista Iberica (F.A.I.), the unique organisation of Spanish anarchists based on autonomous affinity groups. Dictatorship forced thee F.A.I. underground and its members into exile; however, it was revived throughout Spain in the post-Franco years and continues to exist to this day.
This first-hand account traces the history of Spanish anarchism back to the founding of the F.A.I. in Valencia in 1927 and follows the F.A.I.’s development throughout the crucial Civil War years, dealing with its organizational principles, controversies, objectives, and programmes.
Juan Gomez Casas was active in the Libertarian Youth during the Spanish Revolution. In 1947 a military tribunal sentenced him to thirty years in prison for belonging to an illegal organisation, nearly fifteen of which he served. He later acted as secretary of the national labour organisation C.N.T. in the post-Franco period and continues to be actively involved in the C.N.T. today. Casas has written several books and has translated a number of others in Spanish, of which Herman Melville’s Moby Dick was the first.
“Casas brings unique
qualifications to the task of chronicling the history of the
F.A.I…. the effort is rewarding.”
--Social Anarchism
Translator’s Notes
Acknowledgements
IntroductionChapter One: Antecedents of the Alliance of Social Democracy in Spain
Fanelli in Madrid and Barcelona
The Founding Nucleus in Madrid
The Marxist “Alliance”
Thomas Gonzalez Morago and the Local Federation of the International in Madrid
Chapter Two: The C.N.T. and Anarchism Up to the Primo De Rivera Dictatorship
Creation of the C.N.T.
Anarchosyndicalism and Anarchism
The Congress at the Comedia Theatre and the Start of Terrorism
Creation of the National Federation of Anarchist GroupsChapter Three: Anarchism and Anarchosyndicalism During the Primo De Rivera Dictatorship and Up to the Second Republic
Existence Underground, Crisis, and Theoretical/Tactical Debates
Arango and Santillan and La Protesta
New Theoretical Debates. Attack by Maurin and Oscar Perez Solis
Organizational Activity up to the Establishment of the F.A.I.
From the National Plenum in March to the Valencia Conference
Analysis of The Platform
Chapter Four: The Iberian Anarchist Federation
The Valencia Conference
Response to the F.A.I.- Los Solidarios
Fall of the Dictatorship
The Confederal (C.N.T.) Congress at the Madrid Conservatory
Reappearance of the Los Solidarios
Radicalization of Anarchosyndicalism
Anarchism and Treintismo
The Myth of the F.A.I.
The F.A.I. and the Cycle of Insurrections
National Plenum of Regions
Revolutionary Strategy and Theory
The Problem of Libertarian Communism
National Plenum of F.A.I. Regions, January-February 1938
Brief Comments on the F.A.I. National Plenum
The F.A.I. and the Saragossa Congress
Chapter Five: The Civil War
The C.N.T.- F.A.I. Connection
Central Committee of Anti-Fascist Militias
C.N.T.- F.A.I. and Government Collaboration
Facing International Anarchism and Anarchosyndicalism: Difficult Justifications
Theory and Practice To May 1937
Councils on Political Affairs and the Peninsular Plenum of the F.A.I. Change of Structure
Late and Incomplete Reaction of the F.A.I. Military Defeat and Collapse of the Republic
Disagreement Between the C.N.T. and the F.A.I.
Predicaments for the F.A.I.
Fall of Catalonia. The F.A.I. and the Libertarian Movement in the Centre-South Zone
The F.A.I. TodayBibliography
Bibliography of Books in English
261 pages, bibliography
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