Consider the origin of all fortunes, whether arising out of commerce, finance, manu­ factures, or the land. Every­ where you will find that the wealth of the wealthy springs from the poverty of the poor. KROPOTKIN. ('Conquest of Bread)

VOLUME 1, NUMBER 11. MAY 1st, 1937. PRICE 2d.—U.S.A. 5 CENTS. Iron, San Sebastien, Durango.... to-day Guernica. Franco, Spanish Patriot and Christian, massacres women and children from the air, while British and French politicians discuss further means of betrayal. Workers ! Show your solidarity with the Basque comrades by imposing your will. Demand active intervention in favour of the Spanish workers fighting for liberty against Italian and German regular Army and Air Force. Now . .. . before Bilbao and its heroic people are wiped out.

MAY 1st, 1937: ITS SIGNIFICANCE THE FALL OF MALAGA

It seems appropriate to us that ity. Once they put power into Government’s Criminal Negligence Responsible a whole page of this issue should the hands of their leaders their be dedicated to our brave Com­ movement is doomed to failure. rades of Catalonia. For it is Regarding the Fall of Malaga, Yet nothing was done. The C.N.T. dant PELAYO was relieved of his they who are defending not only Workers! Return to your reports appeared from various sources of Malaga established a munition fac­ command, because he was under sus­ Spanish territory with their homes this May Day resolved which did not altogether correspond tory where 1,000 persons were busy picion to be in sympathy with the armed fists, but they are also de­ that your efforts on behalf of with the true facts of the case. Some manufacturing equipment for the Confederates, i.e., the C.N.T. As a fending the noble ideals which the Spanish workers’cause will went so far as to actually lay the troops. result of this, Estepona fell into the prompted the workers of Spain be intensified, by voice of mouth, blame for its fall on the heads of the In November, another deputation hands of the Fascists three days later, to take up arms against Fascist through our press and by direct Anarchists. The Communist and was sent to interview Caballero, to put and thereby they moved 25 kilometres invasion. They are advancing action. That you will resolve Socialist organs of the World Press full details before him as to the nearer to Malaga. with the Social Revolution: new to contribute to the best of your even did not hesitate to repeat these position of Malaga and to impress on After this defeat of our forces, enterprises are springing up ability to the work of human lies—lies which can only serve the him the dangerous state of affairs. brought about by the withdrawal of everywhere, thereby freeing the interests of the Fascists and by no The Government’s reply was again in arms, the Government relieved solidarity that is being carried Colonel HERNANDEZ ARTECA of country from foreign Capital; out for the relief of suffering and means those of the Anti-Fascist the negative. villages and small towns are United Front in Spain. An Economic Committee was his post and replaced him by Colonel exposure of the civilian popu­ Villalba. The latter came from the We give below details on the Fall appointed in Malaga, composed of being collectivized even where lation to the murderous attacks Aragon Front, where he had by no the C.N.T. and F.A.I. have not of Franco’s war planes and war­ of Mallaga which were reported by representatives from all parties. The persons actually engaged in the fight Committee again applied to the means distinguished himself. yet penetrated, such as the vil­ ships. Between the fall of Estepona and and belonging to the various parties. Government. They pointed out that lage of Peza which boasts of the fall of Malaga there was an inter­ As far back as AUGUST last, the this Committee, consisting of repre­ 5,000 inhabitants, or as at Llere- Finally, that you will not val of twenty days. During that time, representative of the C.N.T., R. sentatives from all parties, Marxists, na where 500 armed workers neglect the workers’ struggle in the Government at Valencia was daily PERA, as well as GIRALT, the Anarchists, etc., of the Popular United confiscated the land from the your own country. For, by in­ adjured to send munitions, in view representative of the Popular Front Front, was urgently in need of muni, landowners, and defended them­ tensifying your activity for your of the fact that the imminent fall of and the U.G.T., reported that the tions in order to fight against Fascism. selves against the assault guards Freedom as well as the Freedom Malaga became daily more threaten­ Fascists were marching in the direc­ The C.N.T.—F.A.I. represented the with such success that the latter of your fellow workers, you are ing. had to leave the village in tion of Algeciras, and that it was majority of the militiamen in this fighting indirectly for the Span­ region. Their request was left un­ The Scouting Service of the Con­ hurried confusion. ish workers’ cause. A strong, imperative to strengthen the defensive forces. heeded. General JO SE ASENSIO federates’ Column “ Juan Arcos,” in­ militant working class in this (Caballero’s Minister for War), the formed the Government that 32,000 To-day, the workers of this A demand was made for 10,000 country could have avoided all Deputy State Secretary-General, Italians and Moroccans, equipped with country will be celebrating the rifles, 16 machine guns, 3 cannons of this bloodshed in Spain. Your refused to supply any arms for 150 tanks and a proportionate amount 1st May. Are they going to 17.S and 10.5. In OCTOBER a dele­ submission to the Bevins and Malaga. of other war material, were advancing flock in their thousands to Hyde gation of the Popular Front waited Citrines of your Unions has towards Malaga. Colonel CREMEN, Park and just listen to their upon Largo CABALLERO, to present At this juncture, the Defence Com­ brought about the betrayal of too, supported this, and insisted on M.P.s or labour leaders speak the necessity for strengthening the mittee of Barcelona sent 500 grenades the Spanish workers. the demand addressed to the Govern­ from the coal-cart pulpits, ut­ defence of Malaga and to ask for more of 17.5, 600 bombs, and a number of cartridges to Malaga. ment for immediate supply of arms. tering their usual stock phrases Enough of these bourgeois arms. Caballero’s reply was that not of workers’ emancipation, and a single rifle, nor a single cartridge Only Four Machine Guns leaders! The Unions need a Malaga Completely Neglected working class Freedom without rank and file of conscious, milit­ could be given for Malaga. In the meantime, the Fascists con­ accompanying them by action. ant and convinced workers. Let There were no anti-aircraft guns The Socialist Government of tinued their advance. Safarraya was This year perhaps will be added this be your resolution this May available, although the town was being Madrid had completely neglected hard pressed by them. On February the fact that Mr. Lansbury Day, in the most momentous daily attacked by machine guns from Malaga. The War Commissar of 5th a Conference was held of all the thinks Hitler a great fellow; that year of International workers’ the air and from as low a height Malaga took away even the last three Anti-Fascist organisations and parties, he has had the honour of shak­ struggle against Capital and as 200 metres. Colonel LU IS cannons from the Federal Column, where the dangerous situation was ing hands with one murderer Oppression! ROMERO (a member of the Com­ which cannons had been posted in the discussed. It was decided to put up and hopes soon to go to Italy and munist Party since 1931) communi­ district of Estepona, and handed them resistance. They only had at their shake hands with the other mur­ cated daily this fact, either by tele­ over to the Marxist battalion disposal 28,000 cartridges, a very in­ derer, and remark what a good, phone or telegraphically, to the MEJICO. Also some machine guns adequate quantity of hand grenades and peaceful fellow he really is. Government. Romero’s reports were were withdrawn from the Federal and 4 machine guns. They hoped for BUJARALOZ supported by the F.A.I. of Malaga. Column of Estepona. The Comman- continued overleaf The workers of this country should resolve that this May 1st, should be the beginning of a asking in view of the fact that money tion of the pupils. They live on the few handed proprietors possessed al­ thorough and not half-hearted Bujaraloz is a large township of has been abolished, how correspond­ same basis as the rest of the popula­ most all the land and the agricultural campaign on behalf of our Span­ some 2,000 inhabitants. It possessed ence is franked, and how newspapers tion. equipment available. The peasant, ish comrades. Let us take as an three churches and seven chapels. are received. The members of the who hired the land necessary for nim inspiration the Chicago Martyrs, None were destroyed. The People’s People’s Committee have replied that The Communal Organisation of to live together with his family, gave and the Spanish Martyrs; the Committee has its headquarters in the a free newspaper service is offered to Work 50% of the crop instead of money. hundreds of thousands of Span­ former town hall. As at Fraja and all the libertarian communes and that As he was too poor to own the equip­ iards, the Durrutis, the Ascasos, countless other communes which we in place of the stamp the mark of the ment necessary to carry out the work who have so generously shed crossed after leaving Lerida, Libertar­ All workers are arranged into two syndicalist organisations, U.G.T. groups; each day the group appoints a in the fields as well as the harvest their blood in the name of work­ ian Communism has been established and C.N.T., is affixed. In any case, and the threshing of the corn, he was ers’ freedom and emancipation. and extends in fact over a larger area new delegate. In the morning each in the cities where money circulates group calls at the Committee to ob­ dependent on the owner who posses­ than that through which we have all organisations use the same method sed all the equipment and thus he was Italy and Germany have suc­ passed. Money has been abolished tain instructions as to the work to be for franking postage. done on that day. Each assembly obliged to give a further 10 or 15% cumbed under the mailed fist of and the principles of Federalism have of his harvest for the use of the Fascism. Spain was to have been applied to the entire social and of the people fixes the work to be The Responsibility of the U.G.T. done between any two meetings and equipment. Add to that the various suffered the same fate at the economic life of the people. contributions and taxes with which a hands of International Fascism. and the C.N.T. in the the Committee divides it between the various groups or teams. In the capitalist society burdened him, (what­ 'The people resisted. They have Communal Life ever such a society may have called checked the advance of fascism; New Villages evening the representative of each group (his power ceases after the day’s itself) and we realise that a peasant in many parts they have defeat- A committee for exchanges with the was deprived of at least two-thirds of ed it. They have succeeded Before the revolution there were outside world is also in operation and work) gives an account of the work done and gives the name of the group his work. As for the agricultural where others have failed because two syndicate#; the U.G.T. and the has been set up by the syndicalist or­ workers, they earned 4 pesetas 50 per from the outset they were mas­ C.N.T. At the time of the Fascist ganisations. Conversations are in pro­ representative for the next day, who will see to the next day’s work. It is day; they had to board and feed ters of their actions. They had rising, the two organisations, which gress so as to establish regional stat­ themselves on such a sum. not men of the Bevin type to con­ had concluded a pact of revolutionary istics and, later, to place the whole easy to see that it is the people who sult for every step they took alliance as a result of the Congress on a national basis, including the set themselves the task, and that all toward their Freedom., This is at Saragossa held by the C.N.T. in other libertarian communes. traces of authority have disappeared. the lesson to the British wor­ May 1936, declared a general strike The Squires Education kers. This is the lesson and began expropriation. The Fas­ A Memory of the Sombre Past \ cists, in their flight, seized three com­ to the thousands of transport A rich owner of land in Bujaraloz rades whose fate is not yet known. The School, before the revolution, Workers who are to-day threat- Here is a picture of the existence owned 14 threshing machines and > consisted of four schoolmasters and ening a strike. The successful The food cards are in red and black, of the rural populations before the earned with his son 25 pesetas each the colours of the C. N. T.-F. A. I. schoolmistresses. The School now in­ outcome of their action depends revolution, a people who to-day have from the government in virtue of their Members of the delegation have been cludes seven members for the instruc- on their own sense of responsibil­ been reborn into a new existence. A work as agriculturalists! were French, Italian, German patriot, and from 1914 to 1918, when all thh happened over again—and to-morrow when it may happen over again, kin W SPAIN and the- Anarchist Ideals from the Root sided with kin, all the authoritarian, have held together, as their difference, are at the bottom only une question di WORLD boutique, rivalry as to who will get UI Anti-Fascist Fortnightly PERNICIOUS SPIRIT OF NATIONALISM the top and dominate and fleece the THE people. The libertarian warners, God win, Proudhon and Bakunin, Tolstoi and TEMPORARY OFFICES : Malatesta, and many others are un. in . The Anarchist Revival In The Wake of the heeded. 207, GOSWELL ROAD, In England, which in the 'fifties and 'sixties was least touched by the war LONDON, E.C.l, Revolution of 1848. clouds and wars, things might have been ENGLAND. different if the advanced movements The complete extinction of govern­ by Bakunin’s renewed activities in 1863, The French Revolution perverted into by libertarian activities in Belgium, etc. had consisted of men of real intellectual Empire, and over twenty years of inter­ mentalism was discussed in Bellegarri- and moral value. But that was scarcely ADVERTISEMENT RATES ON gue’s review, L ’Anarchle Journal de I omit insistence upon the vehement national war, intensified foe a long time Ernest the case. Idealism became extinct, fiJ. I’Ordre (Paris, April and May, 1850), anarchist authors of those years APPLICATION. the cult of Authority and the belief in Coeurderoy (Yours d'Exil) and Joseph urutively, with Robert Owen, and older Totalism thinly veiled by the fiction of and in Proudhon’s Ide’e ge'ne’rale de la and younger trude union leaders re­ PRICE 2d.; FOR U.8.A., 6 CENTS. and in Proudhon’s I die ginirale de la Dejacque (the New York periodical La submitting to majority rule, a broken Libertaire), as circumstances reduced mained, eager to force their way into reed which cannot weather storms. The 1851), a book of which a complete Eng­ the spread of their publications. Parliament by an extension of the fran­ absolutism of despots and priestly fana­ lish translation was published in the chise or some other combination. The tics now spread over parties, partisans 'twenties by the “ Freedom Press ” PERNICIOUS SPIRIT OF most ambitious of bhese were in search and whole peoples; each party wished to (London). NATIONALISM. of a shiny idealogy, and here Mazzini’, THE FALL of MALAGA rule, each politico-social conception must During the same years American in­ What bus prevented this ferment of Dio e Popolo (God and the People) were be universalised, each people was to be­ dividualist anarchism, rather aridly ex (continued) free spirit from advancing in countries the right mark for them. Mazzini had come a centralized unit eager for supre­ panded in the economic writings of like England and France? Above all, the glory of a revolutionist, but was on speedy reinforcements. Two days macy and expansion. Technical progress Josiah Warren, found a more plastic ex I believe, the pernicious infiltration of the safe side in social matters, being the before the fall of this district, a battery was enormously accelerated in the early pression in the lectures and works of nationalism, which in the later fifties most noted anti-socialist. He passed as nineteenth century by inventions, short Stephen Pearl Andrews, who coined the was equally favoured in France by Napo independent in religion, but had a very of field guns and one anti-aircraft gun term “ the Sovereignty of the Indivi­ arrived, which, however, it was no cuts of genuine value undoubtedly, but |eon III and the bourgeois republican respectable God (Dio) of his own mak which are apt to be made use of, mono­ dual,” somewhat drastic words, open to patriots, in Italy by Mazzini and Gari ing. He may have passed as unscrupu­ longer possible to put in action, Tor polised, unharmoniously, by unsocial ele­ misinterpretation, but the meaning of haldi, by Cavour and Victor Einanuel, lous in politics, but he had a wonderful fully five days this battery was lying ments, and in the present ease they were which was made clear in those years by in Germany by the democratic and ethical code of his own. In short, he at Almeria inactive. As to the reason appropriated by the profiteers of the a widespread literature. For years the liberal patriots of 1848, and soon by was a Saint and his followers might pasj factory system and by international fin­ best men in the States had seen Bismarck, elsewhere by the Poles and as little Saints and get into Parliament for this inactivity, Colonel Bolivar, ance which the wars had so much helped through the evils of government—mone­ who was at the head of the Marxist other Slavs, the Scandinavians, etc. or office. A few years later the same to make prosperous and which, by pro­ tary greed, chattel slavery, corruption This national patriotism welded together men were dazzled (or made believe that Battalion at Motrii, could give in­ moting technical advancement, had and humbug; men from Garrison and the peoples and the governments, the they were) by the dash and presump­ formation, after the other Marxist found the lever to lay hands on the re­ Emerson to Thoreau and Walt Whitman, revolutionary patriots and the ^ military tion and, no doubt, the acumen and sources of the whole globe. For the and many had gathered in free com­ reactionaries. Proudhon stood firm as a learning of Marx, and left him a free Battalion “ Mejico ” had likewise munities, of which Trialville (Modern railroads and steamers, which might have rock against this tendency from 1858 to hand in the International, quite con­ suffered defeat. The case with these Times) on Long Island, from 1851 to made the nations know each other and 1863, and after him Bakunin, however tent, for some time, to shine in his re­ the early 'sixties, was the best known guns was similar to that which took fraternise, became so many new fetters fascinated by nationalism he was from flected glory. Their great care was al­ place in Barcelona, where 11 tanks to hold them in capitalist bondage. aggregation of anarchists and sympath­ 1846 to 1863, opposed the fatal current isers of that time who wished to live ways not to appear as socialists before were stolen by the commander of the Science held up her head since the with might. Very few followed them. the trade unionists, their employers, and 'thirties and 'forties by masterful break­ undisturbed by authority. K-arl Marx Barracks, which tanks did Proudhon was stoned, and even the In- the public, their future electorate. In ing of new ground and by burying a ternationl of 1864 became anxious;—not this milieu, then, in the 'sixties and not therefore go to the Front, but dead past, culminating in the 'sixties, LIBERTARIAN CURRENT so much to unite the proletarians to 'seventies, socialism was only the con­ which were designed to be used for the age of Darwin, but, with technical RE-KINDLED. break their chains, as to incite the West cern of a few rugged old men, known advances already pressed into the service party political purposes. All these, Continental and American ern Powers to make war on Russia, as “ old Chartists, O’Briennites, Owen- of the bourgeoisie, many men of science experiences, the breakdown of illusions which had become Marx’ pet project in ites," etc., the brothers Murray, Towns­ were also impressed by bourgeois omni­ On Saturday, February 6th, another on Chartism and sectarian socialism, re­ the 'sixties. Proudhon had worked in end, Dan Chatterton and others. The Conference took place at Head­ potence, a backsliding of which Professor vain, the cluism between war and revo­ direct anarchist tradition may have died Huxley was a typical representative. collection of the good old Godwin tradi­ tion and the poignant logics of powerful lution had vanished—all were ready to with Cuddon, soon after 1874, for quarters, where the resistance was Under these conditions the vigorous rush into fighting in the name of Gari Lothrop Withington, who, a few years prepared. On Sunday, February and generous outbreak of popular discon­ authors like Proudhon and some of the baldi or Mazzini, Napoleon III or Bis­ later, first came over from New Eng­ tent and revolt in a large part of Americans, rekindled a libertarian cur 7th, the Syndicates of the C.N.T. pro­ rent in London, and even a man void of marck. This led to the series of wars Europe in 1848 was frustrated in its land, found him no longer alive, as far posed that resistance should be made receptivity (as he appears to me), from 1859 to 1871, soon to permanent as I know, and in the 'eighties he was effects almost from the beginning. In­ Herbert Spencer, Balkan wars or unrest, to the scramble at any price and carried out to the stead of doing away with rotten institu­ in the first edition of quite forgotten or never referred to in utmost. They wanted to gain a Social Statics (1850), reached a re­ for colonies, to occupation or conquest London. tions, most individuals and classes just from Morocco and Tunis to Libya, Egypt week’s time, during which they hope wished to step into the place of the old markable degree of anti-Statism. The Whose fault was it then? Not that early volumes of the weekly Leader, and most parts of the Turkish Empire— of the idea, but that of the fatal satura­ to get reinforcements. There were no and establish the largest possible expan­ finally, inevitably, to the Great War of sion, centralisation and universalization since March 30th, 1850, teem with tion of most socialists with authority, more cartridges available, and the articles and discussion on the works of 1914 1918 and to the present dark situa which makes them unable ever to achieve of their credos, programs and parties. tion. defence had to be limited merely to Time was wasted on the playgrounds of Spencer, Andrews, Proudhon, and on true and attractive social realisations and the use of hand grenades. parliaments, whilst reaction recovered “ Modern Times ” from 1851 to 1854. welds them together with that past the lost ground by Bonapartist dema­ Anti-Statism was a live intellectual fac­ WAR WARNINGS UNHEEDED. which their real believers desire and When at 2 p.m. on Sunday a dele­ gogy and military conspiracies. Demo­ tor in those years, and left not a few hope to overcome. traces in Dickens’ works—e.g., in his Once more, as during the French gate of the Confederates’ Column cratic and social purposes were mixed up Revolution und the First Empire, Next we shall consider the renewed scathing description of the “ Circumlocu­ libertarian developments in England as called at the Commander’s Head­ with national unifications and even frat­ Little Dorrit. authoritarian socialism had been no pro ricidal wars between nationalities. tion Office ” in Indeed, represented by men like Joseph Lane, quarters in order to report and to oscillations between Bumbledom and tection against this—at all times in that Proudhon saw clearly and published period up to 1815, when Buonarroti offered William Morris, Peter Kropotkin, and receive new instructions, the head­ memorable warnings throughout all these Circumlocution form the essence of gov­ their comrades. erning to this hour, whilst the people his help to the Emperor Napoleon, in quarters had already been abandoned. years. Anselme Bellegarrigue in the the 1859-71 period, when all socialists March 24th, 1937. X.X.X. Toulouse "Civilisation ” was almost the continue to lay life and death, war or The Marxist War Commissar peace, in the hands of men who, what BOLIVAR, too, was no longer there. only one who, like Proudhon, fought against governmentalism root and ever be their origin, immediately be­ All had fled, without having notified branch. A few others, Dejagve and come their masters. it beforehand. This flight had as a Coeurderoy stood up as anarchists a little FIRST STEP TOWARDS THE OUR ORPHANS' FUND consequence the death of thousands of later, after experiencing the bourgeois women and children. Safarraya had cruelty and witnessing the incompetence INTERNATIONAL. of authoritarian democrats and social­ Popular anti-Statist propaganda in fallen; the routes occupied by the Fas­ ists. cists, who mowed down with machine these early 'fifties was weak and poor as Havelock Ellis Appeals for Elis6e Reclus expressed similar a general effort, whilst, as observed al­ guns the people who were trying to opinions in these years, whilst Bakunin, ready, a few men kept together, men of escape. The Fascists then entered the who was penetrated by complete liber­ the Robert Owen and Brouterre O’Brien tarian socialism for years, probably since milieu, who had been in touch with Support town. While this entry was going on, 1842, was absorbed in 1848-49 by vast the inhabitants still believed that it Josiah Warren and other anarchists in plans of Slav federation and of break­ America. William Pare, who sym­ I do not know any country where the children, and I include those of was our forces. ing up the State units of Russia, pathised with them, had been in close all classes, are nicer and of better disposition than in Spain. This is not Prussia, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, connection with W. Thompson. Ambrose which made him in the social domain an opinion in which I am alone. It is shared by many who have lived Militiamen Left Without Caston Cuddon may have been the most particularly eager to foment rebellions durable centre of the small group. He much in Spain and mixed with the people. So that in doing what we can Instructions of the large peasant populations of Cen­ was in near touch with two publications. tral and Eastern Europe. to help the children of Spain, under the tragic circumstances of today, The Working Man and The Cosmopoli­ we may feel a satisfaction that is more than merely philanthropic. Malaga fell on Monday, February DEMOCRATIC FAILURES AND tan Review in the early 'sixties, and was 8th, at noon. Since the Saturday DEFEATS. the spokesman of the workers who wel­ According to a story which a foreigner is said to have told in the previous to that, the militiamen were The outstanding democratic failures comed Bakunin when he arrived in Lon presence of several Spaniards, Adam once revisited the earth. He found left without command and without in­ and defeats, from London Chartism to don (January 10th, 1862), took part in England France, Germany all very strange and bewildering. But when the Bonapartist victory at the presiden­ the Welcome Committee of French dele­ he reached Spam he heaved a sigh of relief. With a smile he remarked: structions. The Fascists still expected tial election (December), and the open gates to the l.ondon Exhibition, 1862, to meet with resistance and remained ruin of democracy in France on June the very first step towards the founda Here at all events things have changed very little since my time." The half a day without further advance. 13th, 1849, the defeats in Germany, tion of the International (1864), and Spaniards were not amused. But at last one broke the awkward silence: But nothing happened. It was only Austria, Hungary, Italy, the Polish dis­ was still active, aged 83, when B. R. Tes, and he was right; Spain is still a Paradise." at a distance of 70 kilometres that tricts, etc.—all this produced at last in Tucker visited him in 1874, That story sadly dates from years back. But if today anything is not a few a certain insight into the fal­ These hints on unforgotten, but as four days later the resistance was lacy both of parliamentary methods, yet insufficiently explored facts, must left m Spam to stand for Paradise it will be the Children. organised. which military treason will always defy suffice to show that socialism had an Havelock Ellis. —as but recently in Spain—and of gov­ other chance in these post-1848 years to * * * When the War Commissar ernmentalism—dumb force which can recover that unsectarian completeness, BOLIVAR had left the town, a only hurt, and an administrative frame, combining solidarity and freedom, which in rff, We. f e, able to announce that we have adopted, on your behalf, general irregular flight ensued towards void of intellectual contents, which can it enjoyed in Godwin's conception. Liv­ 10 little Spanish Orphans. This means a great responsibility for us, but Almeria. Colonel CREMEN declared only entangle human progress at great ing forces were not absent, as the dis­ we are confident that our Comrades who read these lines will take their cost and obstruct progress. gust over Napoleonic despotism after the share of the responsibility. before witnesses, who met him on the Government was recognised as a per­ coup d’Etat of December 2nd, 1851, in high road, that he had been betrayed. manent intellectual constipation, an in­ France, the deep discontent with and , ^'° those who have not yet sent their donation, we appeal to them During the second half of January he corrigible nuisance by men like Richard distrust of the state in England at the to do so at the earliest possible occasion. had been promised 8,000 rifles and 200 Wagner, Carl Vogt, Arnold Ruge, Carl time of the Crimean war, and other facts 7 o those Comrades who have already generously contributed to the Schury, Alexander Herzen, Lameunais, tend to prove. machine guns, also cannons and 26 and others, and many moderates also Intellectually, Proudhon was in fullest nr!!hn * * £ ° “ ‘ j coJUl’,ue sending us all you can spare. To keep 10 anti-aircraft guns. Yet none of these looked for means to do away with a efficiency; Pi y Margali brought all these p/ian* un/d the end of the year we shall need at least £150. As yet we arms came to Malaga. CREMEN recognised failure. In France, where, libertarian considerations before the ad­ have not £40. Make a special effort now without further delay! Make congratulated the Anarchist Column no doubt, many still listened to Jacobin vanced public of Spain in La Reaccion fanatics like Louis Blanc (Plus de Gir- y la Revolucibn (1854), and laid the weZmhwe will be K able r , to t0 adopt TW\ 20 Tchildrenl that thr0U- hy°ur efforts small sacrifices, “ JUAN ARCOS ” on the desperate ondins, 1851), solutions of the problem foundations of conscious libertarian resistance it had offered while still in were traced in many proposals of decen­ thought in that country; Pisacane com­ the mountains. tralisation and of direct legislation by posed his famous Italian Saggi storici- the people, the latter being advocated polltici-militari, published, I although he \a/ h p ^ n HP f£rm now and post to “ SPAIN and the The C.N.T., with the remainder of by Ledru Rollin, Consideraut and Ritt- was killed in open rebellion in Italy in 207' Gofvvf1l Road, London, E.C.l, to which the comrades who were ready to con­ inghausen, in well remembered publica­ 1857, in the following years, 1858 and address all moneys, clothes and foodstuffs should be sent. tinue the fight, formed the “ MACH- tions. 1860, which proposed federalist socialism as expressed by that simplest and clear­ NOW ” Battalion. This Battalion was est formula, “ Liberta ed Associazione ” refused rations, although it fought MAY DAY (freedom and association)—the same To “ SPAIN and the WORLD” . No. alongside of the Battalion “ JUAN DEMONSTRATION basis upon which Bakunin began to ARCOS ” up to the very last. They work in Italy from 1864 onward. Pisa- SPANISH ORPHANS* FUND succeeded, however, in carrying away The London Committee of the cave’s and Bakunin’s near friend and C.N.T.-F.A.I., the Freedom Group comrade, Fanelli, in 1868-69, transmit­ to Almeria 800 rifles and 2 machine ted these ideas to the militant workers Please find enclosed cPH°EQlJB value...... for the guns which the Marxist Column and the Anarcho-Syndicalist Union of Spain, many of whom were already “ M O T R IL” had left behind. (London), will take part in the May penetrated by the ideas of Pi y Margail SPAIN and the WORLD” fund in aid of the Spanish Day demonstrations. Comrades and and of Proudhon. This is the story of the Fall of sympathisers are asked to meet on Proudhon himself produced his finest orphans under our care. I shall do my best to send a Malaga. It is not the Anarchists who works On Justice in Revolution and In Victoria Embankment at 2.30 sharp. Church (1858) and On the Federative regular contribution of...... week are to be blamed for it, but the Speakers at Hyde Park will include: Principle and the Necessity to Recon­ •every month criminal negligence of the responsible inghausen, in well remembered publica­ struct the Party of Revolution (1863), Government which had refused up to tions. in addition to much other work in these N am e...... the last moment to supply the neces­ Emma Goldman years. Thus free, federalist, associative sary weapons for the defence of Captain White or mutualist forms of socialism were be­ Address fore the people in works of lasting worth Malaga. Mr. Metcalfe J just back by brilliant authors, in the 1850-1863 A. SOUCHY. Mrs. Adams | from Spain. period, which was immediately followed SPAIN AND THE WORLD, SATURDAY, MAY 1st, 1937. 3

CATALONIA, BANNER-BEARERo f t h e REVOLUTION Not only has Catalonia Achieved a New Social Order; Valuable Help has been sent to Madrid; Armed Forces, Ammunition and Foodstuffs to the Aragon Front; Thousands of Refugees from Madrid, Malaga, San Sebastian etc., Cared for ; Help Demanded and Promised for the Heroic Basques. Catalonia Answers her Left Press Critics, by Examples of Abnegation and Sacrifice. The Creation of a New Industry “MARATHON JMOTORS”

Those who have travelled in Spain, of workers and technicians of the fore decided to distribute various must have certainly noticed the ex­ General Motors is about to create a parts amongst the already existing cellent cars which are on the roads. national industry, and on foundations workshops and factories. The central But all these cars, even the cheaper which assure it a certain future.” factory limits itself to supplying the ones, and all the lorries, bear foreign On July 19th, the directors of Gen­ various supplies with all the technical names. Though apparently cars made eral Motors closed the factory and advice needed; drawings, sizes, techni­ in Spain, such as Buick, Oldsmobile, left. But on the 25th when calm had cal data concerning the properties of Cadillac, Hispano Suiza, Ford, once more been established in Barce­ the metal, etc.; checking the quality etc. . ., it was only a blind. Hispano lona the workers and technicians re­ of the work turned out, and attend­ Suiza, Ford and General Motors had turned. ing to the assembling of the parts. only established factories for the as­ “ We felt even more in our right Organisation of Production sembling of cars; and all material in occupying the factory, as in their Sixty-nine workshops, the greater arrived from abroad in parts—thus hurry to leave, the directors had part collectivised, and some under in July last, the automobile industry omitted to settle up debts amounting workers’ control, are working in this in Spain consisted only of factories to 85,000 pesetas.” All the workers new industry at the moment. for assembling and repair. were ready to begin work, save a few As soon as one part has been check­ It might have been considered un­ foreign technicians who had been re­ ed and passed, work is begun on the reasonable to try and modify the state ceiving high salaries, but whose pres­ manufacture of the quantity needed of things, to try and create a National ence was far from being indispensable. for 1,000 lorries, which is an order Motor Industry in Spain whilst the The factory began its work under a to be delivered by the end of June. civil war was being waged; and yet collectivised regime, managed by a The assembly will not be carried out the workers of the old General Mo­ liaison committee composed of five at Barcelona where the installation is tors, in the enthusiasm and under the representatives from each of the syn­ insufficient and demands, besides, too pressure of urgent necessities, have dicated organisations (C.N.T. and great a human effort. Two factories dared to undertake such a task; and U.G.T.), among which complete unan­ will be constructed at Pueblo Nuevo, whilst on the Ramblas and at the imity exists. Salaries were fixed. where work will be executed on the Paseo de Gracia elegent foreign cars Manual workers received 127 pesetas travelling belt system, under modern CATALONIA’S ART TREASURES are to be seen today, plastered with a week and technicians 750 a month conditions and guided by the prin­ initials of parties and workers’ organi­ (whereas before they received 1,800). ciple of maximum result with the least The Work of Salvage : Only 5 sations, far from the centre of the But it was impossible to continue effort. city the engineers and workers of the this work indefinitely. From England, The output at the beginning of Per Cent Lost “ Collectivised Marathon of Iberia,” America and Germany the supply of April will be 20 lorries 4 day; the a new name given to the American parts for assembling ceased. Thus, amount which was produced under SYSTEMATIC COLLECTIONS ORGANISED enterprise, are putting into operation once the stocks had been ex­ the capitalist system; but the workers the new industry which will hence­ hausted there would be no more as­ hope shortly to be able to double the One can say that the work of sal­ preserved were communicated to the forth feed the Spanish motor market. sembly of new cars, and work would production and thus be in a position vage of the archives, libraries and various Committees which had been have been limited to single repairs to meet the demands of the country. works of art, and the first reactions formed throughout Catalonia. Their The Revolution has freed and renovation. The committee, how­ The value of the creation of a Na­ of July 19th took place simultan­ answer was to send all salvaged Spanish Industry ever, had foreseen these complications, tional lorry is great. Firstly, it has eously. Groups of volunteers, or treasures to the " Commission of “What we have done”—stated Com­ and it was then that the project of a created work for tens of thousands isolated enthusiastic amateurs heroic­ Artistic Treasure." Thus begun the rade Herresos, (Propaganda Delegate National Motor Concern was en­ of men; secondly, it is making use of ally strove in a self sacrificing man­ first collecting together of jewels, of the factory),—“ has always been visaged. the great mineral wealth of the coun­ ner to save the art treasures paintings, sculptures, books and thought impossible by the previous The technical problems that arose try, and finally, it has made Cata­ accumulated in museums, Churches documents. Commissariats of Archae­ bosses of Spanish Industry. And in were complex. The creation of a Na­ lonia independent of the whims of the and private houses, from the flames ological Museums, or Art Museums, fact, it was impossible for them, as tional Motor necessitated the manu­ Foreign capitalists who, by the key and the destructive flail of war. of Libraries and Archives were foreign competition made the crea­ facture of every part from the engine positions they held in that industry, All this valuable work was soon co­ formed, delegates were named, and tion of a National Industry out of to the chassis. It was out of the could, without a moment’s notice, ordinated by the expert staff of the to the departmental delegates and the question. Imports were practi­ question to construct a large factory paralyse the transport system of a Museums, Libraries and Archives; civilians working for the preservation cally free from tariffs, and one could for this purpose, owing to the heavy whole country. notices were affixed on prominent of art treasures were issued identifi­ not dream of establishing a system costs for machinery. Further, such monuments with requests to preserve cation cards, which allowed them to of tariffs, which would have injured a scheme would have taken too long (Notes taken from an article by that which the Revolution had made travel freely in Catalonia, listing and powerful interests. The collectivity to put into operation. It was there­ Yves Levy) the property of the people. Lists of photographing and where necessary art treasures and monuments to be appealing for help from the Com­ mittees and militia. REVOLUTIONARY ECONOMY By a special decree of the Gener- alitat all private collections in Bar­ celona were stored in the Art Collectivisation Progresses Museum of Catalonia. This was Help Must Be Given carried out with perfect order and , VALLFOGONA DE BALAGUER obtain by the produce of the land or the necessary inventory made in ten (Lerida) through the interchange of products. To The Basques days, commencing on July 20th. In the village of Vallfogona de VILLANUEVA Y GELTRU It was in this manner, little by little Balaguer, all the efforts made by the There are about 250 peasants in We must give thought to the Basques. that the work of enthusiastic anony­ libertarian comrades are directed to­ this locality, their syndicate being mous citizens was spread. The sight wards the attainment of the greatest divided into four sections: partners, The circumstances of the War have placed these of destruction created a passionate possible understanding, of the real day-labourers, tenants, and small brothers in the front ranks of the struggle for liberty, and desire for conservation. Everything problem of the land worker in the proprietors. it is the duty of all anti-Fascists to find a way of helping which was beautiful, exotic, or deli­ revolution: the collectivisation of the They have created an agricultural this noble Basque race which the Fascist hordes wish to cate was considered as an art object land. collectivity, having machinery at its subjugate to an imperialist tyranny. and for that reason worthy of the The collectivity in this village was disposal: four tractors, a threshing people's museum. constituted in the middle of Nov­ machine, and four reaping machines: We anarchists are not people who have received the ember, collectivising 300 jornales of besides this, they possess fifteen kindest treatment from the Basque authorities. Setting * * * land belonging to the bourgeoisie. animals for ploughing, with a corres­ aside the misunderstandings which time will clear up, Once calm reigned it was possible It is made up of 53 peasant families, ponding number of ploughs. Forty- their attitude towards our comrades has been one of to inspect the burnt buildings. Thus who have felt their responsibility, and four estates which originally belonged extreme dogmatism. Nevertheless it is our duty, for the was it possible to salvage in part, have sided with the revolution. They to fascist owners, have been requis­ the artistic treasures of the Churches possess the machinery for the cultiva­ itioned for the collectivity. We very reason that we think as we do, to show the Basques of "La Merc6," "Pi," "Sant Cugat," tion of the land they are working. should note here that some small pro­ our typical generosity, for not in vain do we at this " Santa Agna " and others. The Besides this, they have a co-oper­ prietors have given up their lands to moment defend the same cause. Catalonia, which has a municipal brigades barricaded all ative for the collectivity, in wnich the collectivity. There are no fixed racial sentiment similar to that of the Basques, must show the windows and doors to prevent they possess all kinds of food. Should working hours, and they have in mind in these days of anxiety for our Basque comrades, that its the entry of unknown people and any kind of food be lacking, the col­ interesting projects on the way to profiteers. lectivity pays in coin (metalico) so being carried into practise, one of solidarity is not only a rhetorical sentiment, but something Owing to limited space we cannot that the families may provide them­ which is to create a farm so as to more practical and substantial. go into great detail as to the work selves with necessities. There can be intensify chicken farming and cattle We must see to it, then, that men and arms should carried out by the art experts in the no doubt that the collectivity is mak­ breeding. leave here to go to defend the Basque territory, which is PINA DE EBRO great cathedral of Barcelona (which ing great progress towards its com­ in danger. Let that which has been done for Madrid, be remained unscathed), or in the plete independence and emancipa­ Under the banner of Commun- Churches of " Sant Just," " Sant tion. ismo Libertario, Pina is making rapid done with ever-increasing interest for the Basque provinces, if necessary. As far as the C.N.T. is concerned, Felip," "Sant Sever " and the famous PALAFRUGELL progress in social, hygienic and cul­ convent of " Peviclkes," where the The collectivisation of land workers tural matters. we make a vow that we shall help the Basques with the paintings of Ferrer Bassa were kept. was carried out in a most spontan­ The work of harvesting and sowing greatest enthusiasm, with all our efforts, for we know the We think it useful, however, to at­ eous manner, the peasants volun- being at an end, the workers have importance of their cause in the struggle undertaken. set about the task of constructive tempt to compare the balance of art tarily giving up to the collectivity Meanwhile, Comrades, forward! That you may be the lend which used to belong to them. work, such as laundries, roads, foun­ treasures salvaged with the number They live happily together, while tains and the preservation of cart example for future days! That Mola and Franco bite the destroyed. The figures provided are waiting for the results of the new tracks and roads. This year the grain dust of our heroic land to-day, as did yesterday Zumala- interesting, more so when the columns harvest. harvest (wheat), despite the circum­ carregui, Cabrera and other Carlist leaders! of our Press are filled with letters stances, has been greater than during from people like the Duke of Alka These comrade land workers, affil­ (Solidaridad Obrera, Barcelona.) iated to the C.N .T. practise mutual the previous year. The maize harvest, who put tnemselves out to prove that aid to perfection, and have assigned and the vegetables and fruits have the Reds " are vandals and irres­ ponsible scourges on this earth, unfit themselves a very small weekly sum not been as good, due to the fact to appreciate the beauty of art. °f money to acquire those few that part of the territory is in rebel necessities of life wnich they cannot territory. continued overleaf HELP FOR MADRID ITALIANS OPPOSE WITH FRANCO'S ARMY MUSSOLINI’S PLEA The Catalan Committee of Marseilles Gifts Of Foodstuffs From has sent by the cargo boat, “ Ciudad de Diary Of An Italian Fascist Volunteer Throughout Italy the common Catalonia Reus," several cases of clothing and groceries. people are opposing, sometimes DAILY EXECUTIONS : ANTAGONISM BETWEEN The Committee of Defence of the secretly, sometimes openly, the Duce’s Spanish Antifascist Revolution has sent the following: invasion of Spain. From Liguria CARLISTS AND MONARCHISTS Throughout Catalonia and else­ 1st March: 3,350 kilos of potatoes and comes the news that Italian sailors where the work of helping the Spanish 45 kilos of sugar. brought there to embark on the steam­ “ Mundo Obrero ” publishes the Condition of the troops eight capital continues. 5th March: 600 kilos of potatoes, 500 days after leaving Italy ship “ Atalanta ” for “ an unknown contents of the diary found on the The large towns and the smallest kilos of dwarf peas, 500 kilos of haricot destination ” (in Italy and Germany beans, 1,000 kilos of sugar. body of an Italian commander killed On the 15th January, the diarist villages have replied with spontaneous everyone now realises that these words 9th March: 1,500 kilos of sugar, 50 on the Guadalajara front. This docu­ took command of his battalion which enthusiasm to the appeal of the Com­ cases of condensed milk. mean “ Spain ”). at first firmly refused ment is significant of the state ot was, actually, already in full rout, mittee. Every day one can find in the 12th March: 750 kilos of potatoes, to sail. They were finally forced to 1,500 kilos of sugar, 1,500 kilos of dwarf mind which exists among the Italian according to his entry: *’ / have taken Catalan Press long lists of the des­ peas and 20 cases of condensed milk. do so by the carabineers. In Genoa command of my battalion. I spoke patch of all sorts of supplies destined two sailors of the “ Genarchia re­ Fascist troops. 15th March: 3,100 kilos of potatoes, The diary, whose cover bears the to the men to the officers and under- for the heroic population of Madrid. one sack of lwricot beans. fused to continue with the ship to officers. . .We shall see. . .It is no 19th March: 2,700 kilos of potatoes, title ‘‘ Agenda 1937” begins on Jan­ We reveal today: — Majorca, saying they did not want to joking matter being here. Repatriation The inhabitants of the town of Cam- 400 kilos of cod fish, 50 kilos of haricot run the risks of war. Other examples uary 1st with this note: bril have sent 73 cases of fish, product beans, 50 kilos peas. “ / am going to Naples to embark and imprisonment in the fortresses are 21st March: 500 kilos of cod fish, could be given to show the feelings of a day’s fishing, of an approximate fur Spain as a volunteer." the order of the day." Such are the value of 19,000 pesetus, and on March 1,000 kilos of dwarf peas, 1,000 kilos of of the sailors on the subject of the conditions prevailing amongst the 24th a 3-ton wagon load of various food­ sugar, 20 boxes of condensed milk. Italian invasion of Spain. But once arrived at Naples the de­ stuffs. i 23rd March: 500 kilos of potatoes, 200 ception begins. In fact, the Com­ troops a week after leaving Naples! The free youth of Cuevas de Alnian- kilos of cod fish, 1,000 kilos of sugar, From Turin we learn that of the mander belongs to the militia and, Two days later, the commander de­ zora sent two fowls, ten and a half dozen 500 kilos of haricot beans, 500 kilos of 3rd regiment of the famous Bersaglieri dwarf peas, 10 cases of condensed milk. as all officers in the militia who have scribes the reception awaiting the eggs, three bottles of cognac, a hecto­ only fifty men enrolled for Spain. litre of aniseed-cordial, 25 kilos of We have given this long detailed not reached this position through troops in the rearguard: “ Enter into sausages, 12 kilos of pork. list not as an indication of quantity, One of these refused to leave when it military study, as is the case with the town accompanied by the pealing Salient has just sent to Madrid, 4,000 hut to show how all the people of dawned upon him that they were professional soldiers, but through of bells. The town is full of gaiety; kilos of potatoes, 1,800 kilos of flour, bound for Spain. Italian flags are everywhere to be 2,570 kilos of rice, 537 kilos of pork, Catalonia feel and wish to contribute terrorism on the working class, he de­ 300 kilos of haricot beans, 350 kilos of to the best of their ability, to the In Naples, in the Brand barracks spises all army officers. And indigna­ seen. It is pouring with rain. At one sugar, 1,500 tins of condensed milk, 100 support of Madrid. a Captain of artillery was ordered by tion urges him to write in his diary: o’clock, a banquet. Where? In the kilos of chocolate, 200 kilos of assorted The traditional “ isolation ” of Cata­ " I am obliged to take orders from hospital! It is unbelievable\ Sixty preserves, 200 kilos of oranges, and 100 his colonel to get ready to leave for kilos of artichokes. lonia from the rest of Spain, which Spain. He protested that he had a colonel of the royal army\ Me, covers; a variety of speeches, toasts Lecina de Cinca, a village of less than has been the subject of so many of made no application for this service, blackshirt since 19201 ” The fact is to Italy, to the Duce and Fascism. 600 inhabitants, in the province of W.N.E.’s articles in the Daily Herald, and that he was willing to fight and that intervention in Spain, is war, and All eat and drink and no one thinks Huesca, has sent 40,000 kilos of corn, has since July 19th, been proved to the General Staff does not allow offi­ of the war. . " 80 sheep, 600 kilos of ham, 200 kilos of die in the defence of his country, but salt pork, 4 kilos of preserved meats and be non-existent. not to go to Spain. Twenty-four cers of the militia to take command The 18th January, he depicts with 60 kilos of preserves. The people of Catalonia, to the hours later his rank of captain was away from them. the deepest contempt the servile way Alcolea de Cinca: 68 quarters of pork. man, are “ behind ” Madrid. taken from him. The Commander writes on Janu­ in which the Spanish fascists fete the 19 cases of preserves. 13 sheep, 440 kilos of haricot beans. ary 3rd: " / have presented myself Italian invaders; " they line up for the Osso de Cinca: 137 quarters of pork, this morning at the ONl.S. base privilege of drinking to their health” 23 cases of preserves. (Oltre Mare Spagna— Overseas for—he writes—" in Spain the more Decimade de Cinca: Four wagon loads Spain). I was thrust into the army. one drinks to the health of someone, of flour, 80 sheep, 150 dozen eggs. 323,000 REFUGEES Belveo de Cinca: 90 sheep. If l had known that, l would not the more does one honour him. And, Ontinera: 60 sheep. have turned up." The following day furthermore, the state of being quite Albalate de Cinca: 50 sheep. From Madrid have come 90,000 men, women he adds: " The militia officers are not drunk is the highest degree of praise Alcolea de Cinca: 3,288 kilos of pota­ and children; from Malaga 5 4 ,0 0 0 ; from Almeria given any special consideration by that one can bestow on a person who toes, 334 kilos of haricot beans, 680 has the opportunity of seeing some­ eggs, 20 kilos of pork. 28,000; from Extremadura and Castille 20,000, and those of the Royal army. It is always from Irun and San Sebastian 20,000. the same business\” one get drunk in your honour." But But once aboard, he soon forgets his he adds further interesting remarks CATALONIA’S ART Catalonia is caring for 323,000 refugees, besides with regard to the attitude of the dif­ feeding her own population; she is also sending food­ rancour and recalls to mind the " ro­ TREASURES mantic ” period of the “ squadrismu," ferent reactionary tendencies in the —continued stuffs, arms and men to the Madrid and Aragon fronts. or the “ punitive expeditions " carried Franco camp: FINAL BALANCE SHEET Catalonia is the focus of the Revolution. out by the Fascists in the villages, " The antagonism which exists be­ (DECEMBER, 1936) murdering the militant workers and tween the traditionalists and the Most people undoubtedly believe suppressing with terrorism working Carlists on one side and the Mon­ that the destruction of art treasures class organisations. He writes: archists and Phalangists is so clear attains fantastic proportions and that Tributes To A Heroic City " Shrouded in silence, the ‘ pirates of cut that I am convinced that at the Catalonia has sacrificed at the altar the ideal ’ leave behind their country end of the war they will fight amongst of the Revolution a high percentage for the most wonderful and most themselves still in the name of Spain.” of objects of artistic value which the GESTURES FROM CATALONIA sacred ideal." That man certainly Daily Executions centuries had bequeathed her. found the right word to describe him­ On the 24th January, he remarked: This was the impression of those At the moment all the railway self and his co-nationals: " pirates." " As long as we eat and drink all goes very people who begun the work of workers of Catalonia, ever conscious 100,000 TONS OF FOODSTUFFS But their " adventure" has nothing ivell. When one poor devil is shot making statistics of salvaged treas­ in common with any ideal. This of the necessity of the accomplish­ FOR MADRID per day, things go even better] ures. But in the end they noted with ment of their duty; who know how to entry is dated 7th January. The same Amongst ray officers, there are a few satisfaction that, though large num­ day he adds: " The commander of react as one man in present day cir­ Publicity has never been one of our who do not get on very well. There bers and pieces of great value have cumstances, are arranging the organi­ the Naples division transmits to us are besides, some very young and in­ been lost, it is much less than would habits. We have always shown our sation of a convoy of foodstuffs which the congratulations of the Prince. experienced ones and they do not hide at first have seemed possible. In intense solidarity without making will be sent to Madrid as worthy The ' Calabria ’ without flag or name, their contempt for the people who addition, however, one must take much noise and much fuss. In this slowly disappears from our land." homage to the heroic fortitude of that very spirit to-day we announce that, associate with us." That they should into account the fact that through The following day he states that "W e capital. In this work not only will without blowing our trumpet, the local despise those people, who, to maintain the Revolution many hidden and un are being escorted by the ‘ Monte- they make their personal contribution, Federation of the Syndicados Unicos their privileges, have betrayed their known masterpieces have been dis­ cuccoli ’ which is following us and but will also put at the disposal of of Barcelona, has organized the dis­ country, and appealed for foreign aid, covered. the people their source of livelihood, protecting us like a father." The 9th The following schematic statistics patch of about 100,000 tons of food­ is comprehensible. But with what the railway, so that it may be utilised January: “ Every day on our guard clearly show that the conservation of stuffs for Madrid, which will be sent nonchalance does the diarist describe in a disinterested manner for the dis­ owing to the boats which continually the medieval art inheritance of Cata­ by train and on lorries. the daily executions, just like a pas­ patch of foodstuffs to that heroic meet us and demand to know our lonia has been, despite the apparent We invite all the workers of time to be indulged in after eating city. The railway workers welcome identity. The ' Montecuccoli, immensity of destruction, practically Catalonia to second the worthy gesture and drinking! The reasons for these this opportunity, to receive at the con­ answers for us. Boredom and nos­ complete. of their comrades of Barcelona. Help executions is explained in an entry signment depot of the “ Railway com­ talgia. . .” Interior art objects (sculpture, for Madrid is not a matter of an on the 26th January, which not only At last he arrives in Seville. He paintings, jewellery, tapestries, em­ mission pro convoy of foodstuffs for hour or of a week’s duration; it must reveals the barbarity of the rebels, has a poor opinion of the military broidery work, etc. . .) were distribu­ Madrid ” all parcels of foodstuffs. be continuous. but also the hatred which inflames These, in conjunction with those we valour of Franco’s soldiers, as on ted in the following proportions:— (Journal de Barcelona, 11 th March, them against the foreign invaders. January 6th, he had already entered Museums possessed 50%. All acquire ourselves, will make up that 1937.) One reads: “ Yesterday the first in­ the following remarks in his diary: was preserved. Cathedrals posses­ magnificent convoy, which will be yet cident since our arrival here occurred From the rumours that are going sed 30%. All preserved. Private another of the numerous tributes " at hregenal de la Sierra. A group of about the way the war in Spain is collections possessed 5% . All pres­ which Catalonia has paid to that young idiots were crying: Down with erved. Parish and Rural Churches heroic city, the pride of all true anti­ Pamphlets On Anarchism being conducted, there certainly is Italy] Long live France and Russia! fascists. cause for laughter. At mid-day on possessed 15%. One third was des­ K ropotkin—Anarchist Communism, Two of our volunteers wanted to Saturday hostilities cease until the troyed. The railway workers, as all citizens, 3d. shoot them on the spot. But our bet­ following Monday. All ask far per­ These figures, which show a loss of have contributed to all subscriptions „ Wage System, Id. ter instint’ts prompted us. They were 5% of Catalonia's treasures known and collections on behalf of Madrid. mits. When it rains the Spaniards arrested and I was called. I ordered „ Place of Anarchism in carry umbrellas. . .1” up to the 19th July, 1936, can be In spite of this, desirous of surpass­ Socialistic Evolution, them to be handed over to the lieuten­ verified by the copious lists issued by ing themselves in this sacrifice, they 2d. The Commander’s irony disap­ ant of the civil guard, Silvetra, my the Generalitat and published in have organised this new remittance of „ Revolutionary Govern­ peared before tragic conditions. It good friend, who would decide their magazine form. goods, by their own initiative and in ment, 2d. just happened to be on a Sunday, that fate. Some were perhaps shot. It was These figures also show to what a business-like way, which they are M alatesta—Anarchy, 3d. the Republican troops showed on the simple and expedient. We personally extent the campaign of defamation putting into practice. . . „ Talk Between Two Guadalajara that they had a different would have given them a purge and adopted by the Yellow Press of the (Extract from a statement issued by Workers, 3d. system of warfare to that of the then a good beating (passage au world, was false and underhand. the Commission Ferroviaria Pro Con­ Owen, W m . C.—Anarchism v. Franco camp. tabac)." The thirst for murder of the The people of Catalonia have once voy de Viveres a Madrid). Socialism, 3d. Spanish fascists seems excessive even more shown that in the heart of the Barrett—Objections to Anarchism, to the blackshirts of 1920. Revolution, when all attention is MASS MEETING ON BEHALF 2d. £90 turned towards the destruction of DEFICIT! OF MADRID „ The Anarchist Revolution, ORPHANS FUND International Fascism, they do not Id. COMRADES! Send your lose their aesthetic sense of beauty 1st List (22nd March—26th April). 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