User talk:Durrutti

Spain 1935-1939

Surely there were two Civil Wars ?

the "dis"- united front against Facism...

...and the Stalinist war against the Revolution that the Soviets could not control.

The Anarcho-Syndicalist mass movement (CNT) was an anathema to Stalin who wanted complete control from the centre and went about assassinating the Main opposition(as in Russia)...this program was only halted by Franco's victory.

The concept of Revolution was,as History has shewn, incomprehensable to the Stalinists who only understood Power and over decades,manifested this in waging war on its own people.

The Archives of Soldaridad Obrera of the time,showed that despite theoretical differences and (and suspicions of the POUM...Trotskyite Faction) the Anarchist movement,in the forefront of the defence of Madrid and Barcelona (whilst being sniped-at from the back by the Bolshevics)...were on many fronts happy to accomodate the UGT and POUM and even the Catalan nationalists.

The refusal of this Movement (CNT/FAI) to seek elected power during the Republic belies attempts to put the anti clerical suppression at thier door.

On the contrary,hundred's of especially country priests who lived in the abject poverty of their "flocks" were themselves happy to accomodate Partisans in their communities.

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reference of possible use:

Vero Richards "Lessons of the Spanish Revolution"

G.Orwell "Homage to Catalonia" possibly a questionable source.

There seems to be no record of Thomas contacting the exiled Anarchists in France who were active in the Resistance during the Nazi occupation of France and who had/have large source material the varacity of which is unquestionable.