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Anarchist Education and the Modern School
On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defense argued that he was simply the founder of the groundbreaking Modern School of Barcelona. Was Ferrer a ferocious revolutionary, an ardently nonviolent pedagogue, or something else entirely? Anarchist Education and the Modern School is the first historical reader to gather together Ferrer’s writings on rationalist education, revolutionary violence, and the general strike (most translated into English for the first...
Everything is Possible
The fascinating history of how the antifascist movement of the 1930s created "the left" as we know it today In the middle years of the Great Depression, the antifascist movement became a global political force, powerfully uniting people from across divisions of ideology, geography, race, language, and nationality. Joseph Fronczak shows how socialists, liberals, communists, anarchists, and others achieved a semblance of unity in the fight against fascism. Depression-era antifascists were populist, militant, and internationalist. They understood fascism in global terms, and they were determined to fight it on local terms. In the United States, antifascists fought against fascism on the streets of cities such as Chicago and New York, and they connected their own fights to the ones raging in Germany, Italy, and Spain. As he traces the global trajectory of the antifascist movement, Fronczak argues that its most significant legacy is its creation of "the left" as we know it today: an international conglomeration of people committed to a shared politics of solidarity.
Reassessing the Transnational Turn
This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic fields, and especially the history of the anarchist and syndicalist movements and the notions of transnational militancy and informal political networks. Whilst restating the relevance of transnational approaches, especially in connection with the concepts of personal networks and mediators, the book underlines the importance of other scales of analysis in capturing the complexities of anarchist milit...
Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity
Barcelona's Vocation of Modernity is a study of the emergence and development of the cultural image of the Iberian peninsula’s foremost modern city.
Soldiers of Revolution
How war gave birth to revolution in the 19th century The Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 introduced new military technologies, transformed the organization of armies, and upset the continental balance of power, promulgating new regimented ideas of nationhood and conflict resolution more widely. However, the mass armies that became a new standard required mass mobilization and the arming of working people, who exercised a new power through both a German social democracy and popular insurgent French movements. As in the Russian Revolution of 1917, the Paris Commune of 1871 grew directly from the discontent among radicalized soldiers and civilians pressed into armed service on behalf of institutions they learned to mistrust. If this militarized class conflict, the brutality of the Commune's subsequent repression not only butchered the tens of thousands of Parisians but slaughtered an old utopian faith that appeals to reason and morality could resolve social tensions. War among nations became linked to revolution and revolution to armed struggle.
The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24
The Spanish Anarchists and the Russian Revolution, 1917–24 explores the impact of the Russian Revolution on the world’s most powerful anarchist movement, the Spanish National Confederation of Labour. The monograph traces the curve of euphoria followed by scepticism that characterized anarchist reactions to the Soviet experiment in 1917–24. This book unearths the interactions between anarchists and Bolsheviks, and assesses their significance for social conflict in Spain and for the foundation of international communism. The Spanish anarchists are a window to examine the global appeal of the Bolsheviks among diverse, non-Marxist militant groups at a time of cross-fertilization for the le...
Anarchism and eugenics
At the heart of this book is what would appear to be a striking and fundamental paradox: the espousal of a ‘scientific’ doctrine that sought to eliminate ‘dysgenics’ and champion the ‘fit’ as a means of ‘race’ survival by a political and social movement that ostensibly believed in the destruction of the state and the removal of all hierarchical relationships. What explains this reception of eugenics by anarchism? How was eugenics mobilised by anarchists as part of their struggle against capitalism and the state? What were the consequences of this overlap for both anarchism and eugenics as transnational movements?
L'eterna desunió dels catalans
L’autora ens explica en aquesta obra la història de la lluita dels catalans en els primers anys del franquisme, dóna a conèixer que l’element català d’oposició externa al règim va ser més significatiu del que s’havia reconegut fins ara i narra els motius del fracàs de l’oposició catalana a Franco entre 1939 i 1950. En el període immediat a la Guerra Civil, molts catalans es van traslladar a França, el Regne Unit, els Estats Units i l’Amèrica Llatina (en especial a Mèxic) a la recerca de refugi. A l’exili i a Catalunya, catalans de tota classe i condició van provar de vèncer les dificultats imposades per la dispersió, entre altres problemes, per tal d’organitza...
A la revolución por la cultura
Se ha destacado en diversas ocasiones la importancia que los libertarios españoles otorgaron a la cultura y la educación como instrumentos indispensables de su proyecto emancipador y de transformación social. Este libro es un análisis no tanto las declaraciones programáticas o de intenciones, las opiniones 'oficiales' o las grandes líneas del discurso ácrata en torno a estos temas, como de las características y el contenido de las prácticas culturales concretas desplegadas por los anarquistas y anarcosindicalistas valencianos durante los años de la Segunda República y la Guerra Civil (1931-1939), especialmente en sus perfiles más reales y cotidianos. Éstas, lejos de tener una im...
Historia de la sociabilidad contemporánea
Entre los historiadores existe un cierto consenso en que la sociabilidad no debe ser una nueva historia sectorial, sino un elemento más de carácter interdisciplinar que permita un mejor conocimiento de la realidad histórica, de la historia total o social. Este libro colectivo se organiza de modo cronológico y combina reflexiones de ámbito catalán, español y europeo sin renunciar a la perspectiva comparada. Partiendo de un balance historiográfico, las diversas contribuciones tratan cuestiones como las sociedades patrióticas de inicios del siglo XIX, el sindicalismo, las redes de sociabilidad Republicana en los siglos XIX-XX o la importancia de las casas del pueblo en el socialismo español. El volumen termina con una visión de las sociabilidades en la época del posfordismo, marcada por las continuidades y rupturas congruentes con el capitalismo neoliberal.
