Some Suggested Short Readings about the Spanish Revolution
Anarchist Federation, Britain, A new world in our hearts, Organise #66 (2006)
(an article commemorating the anniversary, this time the 70th, and
summarizing events with a little different and equally valuable
emphasis)
http://www.ainfos.ca/en/ainfos18304.html
http://www.afed.org.uk/org/issue66/spain36.html
Andrew Flood, Two Weeks that Shook Spain. Workers Solidarity Movement, July 1996
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/ws/spain49.html
(an article by an anarchist commemorating the 60th anniversary and summarizing events)
Diego Abad de Santillán, with an introduction and notes by Charlatan Stew, Why we Lost the War: A Contribution to the History of the Spanish Tragedy
(excerpt, 1996, a small article by an anarchist discussing anarchist
participation in the Republican government) Also available online at
http://recollectionbooks.com/cs/spain2/GravediggersOfTheRevolution.txt
Workers Solidarity Federation, South Africa
(2005), A new world in their hearts: The Spanish Revolution, 1936-1937
(an article commemorating the 69th anniversary and summarizing events
with a little different and equally valuable emphasis)
http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/138
For those interested in more detailed and longer readings
Martha A. Ackelsberg, Free Women of Spain: Anarchism and the Struggle for the Emancipation of Women. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indianapolis, 1991 (a book by a feminist scholar sympathetic to anarchism)
Noam Chomsky, Objectivity and Liberal Scholarship in American Power and the New Mandarins and in The Chomsky Reader (an article written by a well-known and respected scholar who identifies himself with anarchist ideas)
http://question-everything.mahost.org/Archive/chomskyspain.html
http://www.ditext.com/chomsky/1968.html
Rachel Hadfield, Politics and protest in the
Spanish Anarchist movement: Libertarian women in early twentieth-century
Barcelona. Journal of Contemporary History, 3, 2001 (an article by a feminist scholar sympathetic to anti-authoritarian ideas)
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/documents/3-hadfield-politics-and-protest
Deirdre Hogan, Industrial Collectivisation during the Spanish Revolution. Red & Black Revolution 7, from the Workers Solidarity Movement, Ireland (another article by an anarchist)
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/wsm/rbr/rbr7/spain.html
Gaston Leval, Collectives In the Spanish Revolution. Freedom Press, London, 1975 (a book written by an anarchist and published by an anarchist press)
http://libcom.org/library/collectives-spanish-revolution-gaston-leval
Iain McKay, A Reply to Bryan Caplan’s Essay ‘The
Anarcho-Statists of Spain: An Historical, Economic, and “Philosophical
Analysis”’ also titled Objectivity and Right-Libertarian Scholarship
(another article by an anarchist)
http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/spainrebut.html
George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia. Penguin Books, London (1966)
(a book written by an author sympathetic to and respectful of anarchists)
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201111.txt
ZIP download at http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011.zip
Jose Peirats, Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution. Freedom Press, London, 1990 (another book written by an anarchist and published by an anarchist press)
Vernon Richards, Lessons of the Spanish Revolution. Freedom Press, London, 1983 (another book written by an anarchist and published by an anarchist press)
Lucía Sanchez Saornil, The Question of Feminism. Solidaridad Obrera, September-October 1935, in Robert Graham, ed., Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume 1: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300CE-1939), Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2005 (an article written by an anarchist)
Matt White, Wobblies in the Spanish Civil War. Anarcho-Syndicalist Review 42-43, Winter, 2005-2006, page 39
Matt White, Wobblies in the Spanish Revolution, part 2. Anarcho-Syndicalist Review 45, Winter, 2007, page 26
Workers Solidarity Movement, The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action (a detailed introduction to the role anarchism played in the Spanish Civil War and the anarchist revolution within the republican zone. (Accessed June 3, 2011 at http://www.wsm.ie/book/export/html/6521).
Part of News of the Spanish Revolution : Anti-authoritarian Perspectives on the Events