- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- The brief summer of anarchy: the life and death of Durruti
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s non-fiction "adventure novel" about Buenaventura Durruti and the Spanish anarchist movement (ca. 1917-1937), first published in Germany in 1972, consisting of a more or less chronological “collage” of "translated, abridged and rearranged" excerpts from "reports and speeches, interviews and proclamations … letters, travel narratives, anecdotes, pamphlets, polemics, newspaper articles, autobiographical texts, flyers and propaganda leaflets" (including extensive selections from the eyewitness accounts of Simone Weil, Ilya Ehrenburg, H. E. Kaminski, Mikhail Koltsov, Ricardo Sanz and Jesús Arnal Pena), punctuated by the author's "Commentaries".
- Catch your dreams - utopia is possible!
While Marinaleda has its flaws, it reminds us that alternative economic models are not only possible, they already exist.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Amid Spain's general depression, Marinaleda - an Andalucian town sometimes dubbed the 'communist utopia' - is bucking the moribund trend with a heady mixture of direct action, community-level democracy, cooperation and mutual aid.
- The challenge of Podemos
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The emergence of so-called populist parties as a response to increasingly discredited political elites is a European-wide phenomenon. In most cases these parties have emerged on the right, if not the far-right. Not so in the Spanish state where Podemos, after barely ten months in existence, appears to be undermining the whole political set up in place since the end of the Franco dictatorship in the late 1970s.
- Collectives in Spain
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1945
A contemporary account of the Spanish Anarchist movements during the 1930's by Gaston Leval, a prominent anarcho-syndicalist. Attention focuses on the roles of "agrarian socialism" and education in the revolution.
- Collectives in the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
An account of the collectives set up in Spain during the struggle against Franco.
- The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
Economic Writings 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
- Connexions Library: Europe Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Europe.
- 'Consumers are not aware we are slaves inside the greenhouses'
Exploitation plagues Spain's farming province, with migrant workers paid below minimum wage and living in squalor.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
What is referred to as Almeria's "economic miracle" among Spanish economists is almost exclusively dependant on an invisible, expendable and often illegally employed migrant workers like Maruf, toiling under 40-degree heat and extreme humidity.
- Cooperation at Work
The Mondragon Experience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
- EFJ Backs Spanish Journalists in Protest
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the regional group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) , today backed the Federation of Journalists Associations of Spain (FAPE) after protests over attacks on journalists covering publ
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- 'Enough is enough!' Corruptopolis board game satirizes sleazy Spanish politicians
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A Spanish student has created a new board game, Corruptopolis, satirizing the corrupt practices of Spain's economic and political elite. In Corruptopolis, players work in teams to answer questions about major corruption scandals to have rocked Spain over the years.
- Hollowing out democracy and law
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The recent actions of the Catalan government are not those of politicians respecting democracy. The reaction of the Madrid government, which criminalize political dissent, are equally disturbing.
- Homage to Catalonia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1938
George Orwell's account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War.
- IFJ Condemns "Flagrant Violation of Press Freedom" After Sentence of Spanish Journalists
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists has strongly condemned a court verdict against two Spanish journalists. The two men, who were charged with "revealing secrets", have been condemned to suspended jail terms of a year and nine months.
- IFJ and EFJ oppose media restrictions in the newly-enacted Spanish Public Security Law
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its regional organisation, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), have joined their Spanish affiliates FAPE, FESP, FSC-CC.OO. and ELA-Gizalan in criticising the Public Security Law
- Immigrant cleaner leads revolt against Spanish mortgage trap
Aida Quinatoa leads the fightback as Ecuadoreans struggle to escape 'impossible' home loans in their adopted homeland
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Ecuadorian woman using homeland courts to fight punitive morgage agreements in adopted homeland Spain.
- In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
- Inside 15M: 48h with the indignants
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
- Lost children of Francoism
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The lost children of Francoism were the children abducted from Republican parents, who were either in jail or had been assassinated by Francoist troops, during the Spanish Civil War and Francoist Spain. The number of abducted children is estimated to be up to 300,000. The kidnapped children were sometimes also victims of child trafficking and illegal adoption.
- Madrid barrio expels 'racist' police patrols
Jeering crowds chase away officers who try to detain immigrants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Community protests police practice of racial profiling: the protests have been dubbed the "indignant" movement.
- The March 29 Strike Against Labor Law Reform in Spain
Outline of the Conjuncture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The general strike of March 29, although it mobilized a good part of the population, apparently took place with more pain than glory. Once the day of the strike was over, everything seemed to continue as before: namely, the continuation of an aggressive policy against the wage-labor population, in an economic context characterized by recession.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 13
Marx and Engels 1854 - 1855
Resource Type: Book
Includes Revolutionary Spain
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 23
Marx and Engels 1871 - 1874
Resource Type: Book
Articles on the International, Bakunin, and the Housing Question.
- A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An in-depth look at the nature of terrorism that discusses questioning terrorism, assessing it, the difference between state terrorism and group terrorism, morality and history, and war and politics.
- "No one represents us": the 15 May movement in the Spanish state
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
On 15 May 2011 thousands of people, mainly young, demonstrated all over the Spanish state under the slogans "For real democracy now" and "We are not commodities in the hands of politicians and bankers". The demonstrations explicitly rejected the participation of political parties or trade unions.
- Not by Bread Alone
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War focused on people's daily needs--who doesn't love hot, buttered toast? People in Spain were starving--they needed food. People--were homeless and needed homes; people were jobless and needed something to do; people were rejected from their communities needed to be included. Anarchists focused on these practical, attainable and above all human needs. And, these are the basic rights that should undergird all human social organizations.
- The November 2011 General Elections in Spain: Indignation Trapped in the Ballot Box
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The “outrage” expressed in the Spanish streets, deflated after the electoral ritual, is confronted with the limitations of the movement’s citizen-based abstractions (electoral reform, the affirmation of democracy, denouncing corruption, etc.) when confronted with the reality ( labor reform, social cuts) imposed by capital and its democratically elected administrators. Or, perhaps, indignation has completed its cycle and we are at the beginning.
- On Catalonia: Debates in the Greek Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Without the burden of self-censorship or "political correctness" on our backs, let us examine what the possible secession of Catalonia actually means and where it could potentially lead.
- One Europe - 100 Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 13, 2014
Libertarian Socialism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2014
The topic of the week is Libertarian Socialism. Articles on no-state solutions in Kurdistan; right-wing dirty tricks used to attack labour and environmental groups; scientists unravelling the risks of new pesticides; the terrors faced by fishermen in Gaza; and bringing books and seeking peace in Colombia. Film of the week is Even the Rain, and book of the week is Adolph Reed's Class Notes.
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- Our Generation
Volume 17 Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Our Generation
Volume 18 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Pamplona's locksmiths join revolt as banks throw families from their homes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In the years of the housing boom, Spain's banks offered 100% mortgages. Now, while receiving millions in public aid, they are throwing people out of their homes. But there's a rebellion under way.
- The Penguin Atlas of Modern History (to 1815)
Resource Type: Book
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Podemos, Catalonia and the workers' movement in the Spanish state
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Following a long period of electoral upheaval and failure of the left, it is argued that the two key areas where the Spanish ruling class could have been confronted was through the workers' movement and the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, both of which were not sufficiently addressed by the Podemos campaign.
- Podemos: The People’s Hopes and Adaptation to the Regime
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Since the victory of Syriza in the general elections in Greece on 25 January, all eyes have turned to Spain in expectation of a "contagion". The fact that Spain will go to the polls for general elections at the end of this year brings this prospect even more alive.
- The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
- Popular Front (Spain)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- POUM - Partido Obrero Unificacion Marxista
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Que es Sources?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
SOURCES (Fuentes) es el medio interactivo que conecta a los periodistas, editores, autores e investigadores, con las Fuentes de información que necesitan para hacer efectivamente su trabajo.
- Reassessing Podemos
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Podemos has come an immense distance in a very short time. It represents a clear choice by millions of people in the Spanish state to vote against corruption, institutionalised greed and contempt for voters, but also against austerity. As such, it weakens the ruling class in the Spanish state and strengthens the anti-austerity side in Europe. The success of Podemos in December is a cause for celebration and a source for lessons and parallels.
- Red City, Blue Period
Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
Resource Type: Book
- Revolutionary Spain
Articles by Karl Marx in the New-York Herald Tribune
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1854
The series of articles Revolutionary Spain was written by Marx for the New-York Daily Tribune between August and November 1854. Marx observed all the symptoms of the revolutionary movement in Europe and paid much attention to the revolutionary events in the summer of 1854 in Spain. He held that the revolutionary struggle there could provide a stimulus for the development of the revolutionary movement in other European countries.
- Rooted in the neighbourhood: what happened to Spain's assemblies?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Oscar Reyes reports on the successes and setbacks of neighbourhood assemblies in Spain.
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- The Socialist Register 1966
Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1966
- Spain: Madrid and Barcelona show -- the greater the unity on the left, the bigger the win
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Once the results of Spain’s May 24, 2015, local and regional elections became known the main lesson for the anti-austerity and anti-capitalist left was simply and starkly obvious: the more united and more involving of ordinary people its election campaigns were, the greater its gains and the greater the losses for the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) -- its main rival for the popular and working-class vote -- and for the ruling conservative People's Party (PP).
- Spain on Edge
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
An interview with Podemos spokesperson Pablo Iglesias.
- Spain's communist model village
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Marinaleda, in impoverished Andalusia, used to suffer terrible hardships. Led by a charismatic mayor, the village declared itself a communist utopia and took farmland to provide for everyone. Could it be the answer to modern capitalism's failings?
- The Spanish Holocaust: Inquisition and Extermination in Twentieth-Century Spain
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
Paul Preston charts how and why Franco and his supporters set out to eliminate all ‘those who do not think as we do’ – some 200,000 men, women and children across Spain.
- Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
- Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- 2011 Spanish protests
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
A series of ongoing demonstrations in Spain.
- Ubu Saved From Drowning
Class Struggle and Statist Containment in Portugal and Spain, 1974-1977
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The end of the Salazar and Franco regimes on the Iberian peninsula was, in fact, a key moment in the beginning of a period in which literally dozens of dictatorships disappeared, a period in which the soft cop took over from the tough cop, and democracy, world-wide, sold austerity.
- What is Going On in Spain?
The End of an Era and the Beginning of Podemos
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Something is happening in Spain. A party that did not exist one year ago, Podemos, with a clear left-wing program, would win a sufficient number of votes to gain a majority in Spanish Parliament if an election were held today.
- What is Happening in Catalonia and Spain?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Vincente Navarro explains the historcal background to the Catalonian independence referendum results in 2017, and notes the political challenges this movement will face.
- What is Happening in Spain?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Spain spends much less on public social expenditures that what it should spend according to its level of economic development. It is one of the countries of the European Union 15 (the more advanced economies of the European Union) that spends the least on public services such as health care, education, public housing and child care, and on transfers, such as pensions.
- When Will We See Tanks in Barcelona?
Against The Current vol. 161
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The current situation in Spain regarding an independent Catelonia.
- Why Spain's new gag law is threat to free flow of information
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Spain plans to ban demonstrations in front of government buildings on the basis of 'disturbing public safety'. The people of Spain refuse to accept this censorship and move to repeal the law by the end of the year.
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