In 1917 the Union General de Trabajadores (UGT) called a strike in which Durruti was an active and prominent participant.
Durruti returned to Spain and Barcelona, becoming an influential militant within both the FAI (FederacionAnarquistadeIberia) and within the CNT(Confederacion Nacional de Trabajadores).
During the battle for the Atarazanzas Barracks, Durruti's close friend and fellow militant Ascaso was shot dead.Less than a week later, on July 24 1936 Durruti led over 3000 armed anarchists (later to become known as the Durruti Column) from Barcelona to Zaragoza.
Primo de Rivera introduced a scheme of incorporating the unions into the state via Arbitration Boards; he encouraged participation by the UGT as a “responsible” alternative to the CNT.
The Zaragoza congress vision document differs from Abad de Santillan’s proposal by adding the structure of residential assemblies and geographic federations of these as the _expression of political self-rule but also as the channel for consumer input, with responsibility for articulating proposals for public goods such as health care, media, town beautification, and housing.
According to de Guzmán, “the petty bourgeoisie was inevitably opposed to the proletariat.
The Madonna known as La Virgen de la Cabeza is enshrined in a forbidding sanctuary on a cliff overlooking the wild hills of the Sierra Morena, north of the city of Andújar in Jaen Province.
The "Fiesta de la Buleria" at Jerez (Bulería is a type of dance and song), the "Potaje" of Utrera and "La Caracolá" at Lebrija are some of the important occasions of gypsy "cante".
Purity of blood (pureza de sangre) regulations were imposed on candidates for positions in the government and the church, to prevent Moriscos from becoming a force again in Spain and to eliminate participation by Conversos whose families might have been Christian for generations.
Este diario, el de mayor tirada en el país, señala que en las pasadas semanas anarquistas españoles se encontraron en Bolonia (norte) con exponentes de grupos radicales de esta ciudad, citando fuentes de la investigación.
Los servicios de seguridad también han localizado envíos de las mismas características dirigido al director general de Europol y a la sede de Eurojust en La Haya.
En el remite de los paquetes figuraban direcciones en Bolonia, por lo que la policía italiana ha centrado sus investigaciones en los grupos de orientación anarquista existentes en esta región.
Tomas de Torquemada, a descendant of Conversos, was the most effective and notorious of the Inquisition's prosecutors.
Vasco Nunez de Balboa reached the Pacific in 1513, and the survivors of Ferdinand Magellan's expedition completed the circumnavigation of the globe in 1522.
The Council of the Indies (Consejo de Indias), established in 1524 acted as an advisory board to the crown on colonial affairs, and the House of Trade (Casa de Contratacion) regulated trade with the colonies.
Bento 16 afirma que a religião muçulmana é "irracional" e "incompatível" com a natureza de Deus.
Paris: Une semaine de révolte contre l'injustice sociale
C’est le résultat inévitable d'au moins cinq années de sarko-show, huit années de durcissement sécuritaire et plus de trente années de dégradation sociale.
With news of the elections the partys selected their candidates and the three front runners for the main partys are Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera for Partido Popular, Indalecio Prieto Tuerro for Partido Socialista Obrero Espanola, and Jose Giral Pereira for Union Republicana.
Jose Antonio Primo de River has announced today that he will begin negotiations with Morrocco, Portugal, and Andorra in the interests of a free trade pact and common market.
Perhaps this is the beginning of a new a bright age for all of the nations involved.
Although the members of the syndicalist trade unions and of the Anarchist Federation of Iberia obeyed the appeal to stop hostilities, the rebel police, and even worse the members of other hostile parties, continued their criminal activities.
Near the Arco de Triunfo and in the Puerta del Angel shots were fired, not by the workers of the CNT but by the rebellious police.
At Amettla de Mar not only were workers molested, but also the militiamen who had membership carnets of the CNT.
He had fallen under the influence of Bakunin in the early 1870's and became one of the leading exponents of the anarchist "propaganda by deed" (acts of violent terrorism).
In 1927, the anarchists founded their own trade union, the FAI (FederacionAnarquista Iberica or Anarchist Federation of Iberia) in an effort to radicalize their own movement.
Garcia Oliver and Diego Abad de Santillan became ministers in the government of the Catalan Generalitat.
Reports of Weyler's suppression of the independence movement, and the mysterious explosion of the battleship U.S.S. Maine in Havana harbor, stirred public opinion in the United States and led to a declaration of war by the United States in April 1898.
The United States destroyed antiquated Spanish naval units at Santiago de Cuba and in Manila Bay.
The Federation of Iberian Anarchists (FederacionAnarquista Iberica) was well organized in Catalonia and Andalusia and had many members, but in keeping with anarchist philosophy, they remained aloof from participation in the electoral process.
Ningun hogar sin evacuados', Ministerio de Propaganda, n.d.
Expediciones infantiles al extranjero', Conserjo Nacional de Asistencia Social Ministero de Sanidad, Ministerio de Propaganda, n.d.
Espana no pot esser lliure sense l'ajut de Cataluna', la Conferncia Nacional del parido Socialista Unificado de Cataluna, by Josep del Barrio, Ediciones del Secretariado de Agitacion y Propaganda de P.S.U, 24-26 July 1937, Barcelona(?).
Decades of rural collectivism and cooperation laid the foundation for theoretical anarchism, which came to Spain in the 1870s (via the Italian revolutionary, Fanelli, a friend of Bakunin) and eventually gave rise to anarco-syndicalism, the application of anarchist principles to industrial trade unionism.
Leaders of the CGT (the Communist workers' union) tried to prevent contacts between the students and workers, and a united left soon became an impossibility.
As de Gaulle and the police mobilized their forces and even greater violence broke out, many strikers accepted limited demands (better pay, shorter hours, etc.) and returned to work.
I am a demonstrative man, a baby picker-upper, a hugger & a kisser — that's my nature.
1563 -- Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) dies.
While his wife of five months waits indifferently for the end, Honore de Balzac dies in Paris at 51 regretting that his own character, Dr. Biachon of La Comedie Humaine, is not there to save him.
Most of us had never seen a bullfight, and the excitement grew when we learned that this Sunday the bull ring was open.
For the next two hours we watched the smooth maneuvering of the matadores and picadores who taunted, stuck, stabbed and inflicted every known insult upon the bull before finally putting it out of its misery.
I could never reconcile myself to the existence of such a "sport." All sorts of arguments have since been offered me about what the bullfight means to the Spaniard and his culture, but I still could no more enjoy it than I could enjoy watching Christians thrown to the lions.
