2016
DOI: 10.1386/ijis.29.3.241_1
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‘Ultra-left’ anarchists and anti-fascism in the Second Republic

Abstract: This article investigates the anarchist understanding of fascism during the Second Republic, and particularly during the abstention campaign of 1933, when the practice of radicals in the National Confederation of Labour (CNT) has been described as ‘ultra-left’ in view of its sectarianism and insistence on the need for an insurrectionary response to the threat of the right. The article explores the comparison made to the German Communist Party (KPD) during the so-called ‘Third Period’, and the lessons that anar… Show more

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“…10 A further uprising took place the following December in Aragon, La Rioja and Barcelona, in response to the victory of the right in the November general election. 11 Once again the uprising was a disaster, which prompted regional federations of the CNT to begin looking for alternative models of collective action. Anarchist participation in the Asturian uprising of October 1934 was thus the product of local alliances with socialist and communist groups, against the wishes of the CNT's national leadership and the powerful Catalan regional federation, which refused its support.…”
Section: James Michael Yeomanmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…10 A further uprising took place the following December in Aragon, La Rioja and Barcelona, in response to the victory of the right in the November general election. 11 Once again the uprising was a disaster, which prompted regional federations of the CNT to begin looking for alternative models of collective action. Anarchist participation in the Asturian uprising of October 1934 was thus the product of local alliances with socialist and communist groups, against the wishes of the CNT's national leadership and the powerful Catalan regional federation, which refused its support.…”
Section: James Michael Yeomanmentioning
confidence: 99%