Living Anarchism (EPUB) von Chris Ealham

The history of a man and his generation. New insights into the Spanish Revolution.

Introduction

Chapter 1: A rebel youth (1908–23)
1.1. Vall d’Uixó
1.2. Barcelona
1.3. Collblanc

Chapter 2: From the street gangs of Barcelona to the anarchist groups (1923–30)
2.1. The forging of a revolutionary
2.2. The affinity group

Chapter 3: The 2nd Republic: the split in the anarchist movement and ‘revolutionary gymnastics’ (1931–33)
3.1. The short republican honeymoon
3.2. ‘The University of La Torrassa’
3.3. Radicalisation: the ‘man of action’ in the streets
3.4. The ‘cycle of insurrections’: internal schism and demoralisation

Chapter 4: The revolutionary writer (1934–36)
4.1. ‘Public Enemy Number One’
4.2. His ‘Golden Age’ at Solidaridad Obrera
4.3. Anti-fascism, the Popular Front and dissidence
4.4. The May 1936 Zaragoza Congress
4.5. The revolutionary: the military coup and revolution from below

Chapter 5: A revolution consumed by war (1936–39)
5.1. The dissident anarchist
5.2. Censure: the triumph of the CNT-FAI leadership
5.3. The war and defeat

Chapter 6: Stateless: the anarchist nomad in French concentration camps and the Americas (1939–47)
6.1. The Vernet d’Ariège Concentration Camp
6.2. Penury and exile in the Americas

Chapter 7: Exile in France and the struggle against anarchist bureaucracy (1947–65)
7.1. Chief of ‘the Toulouse school of terrorism’
7.2. The brick maker becomes a historian
7.3. ‘The head of the CNT’ jailed and tortured
7.4. Love and family in exile
7.5. The fight for culture and the unity of the CNT
7.6. Reunification and division

Chapter 8: The limits of the ‘new’ anarchism (1965–75)
8.1. The Grupos de Presencia Confederal y Libertaria and the ‘New Left’
8.2. The inexorable decline of the CNT in exile
8.3. A restless pen confronts the deep condescension of the past

Chapter 9: The return of the ‘democratic danger’ (1975–89): the rise, splintering and decline of the CNT after Franco
9.1. Hope
9.2. Disillusionment
9.3. The return to his roots: Vall d’Uixó (II)

Chapter 10: Conclusion: An indispensable life

Bibliography
Index