Anarchy 5

Contents of No. 5

July 1961

July 19, 1936: Republic or Revolution?	V.R.	129
Brenan’s Spanish Labyrinth	Marie Louise Berneri	137
The Congress of Zaragoza	Philip Holgate	144
Some Conclusions on the Spanish Collectives	Gaston Leval	149
A Peasant Experiment in Anarchist-Communism	H. E. Kaminski	156
Notes in the Margin	C.W.	159
Cover	Philip Sansom
Cover Poem: ‘Song for the Spanish Anarchists’	Herbert Read

SPANISH REFUGEE AID

was formed in 1953 to assist the Spanish refugees, 150,000 of whom have been living in France often in misery and poverty, since 1939. They lost their homes, health, jobs and country because they would not live under a dictatorship. Funds are needed for the FOYER PABLO CASALS, a centre for old people

at Montauban, France,

Hon. Chairmen: Pablo Casals, Lazaro Cardenas

Chairman: Mary McCarthy

Executive Secretary: Nancy MacDonald

80 East 11th Street, New York City, N.Y., U.S.A.

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FRANCO’S PRISONERS SPEAK

The letters and the lists of names and sentences reproduced in this pamphlet come from one of the Spanish prisons.

They are written by the prisoners.

They describe life in a Spanish prison.

The problem of the prison is the problem of Spain.

Here is the situation that the Franco regime is trying to hide from the outside world.

Obtainable for 1s. 6d. from

Spanish Ex-Servicemen’s Association

c/o 210 Bravington Road, London, W.9.

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Solidaridad Obrera

Portavoz de la Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo de España

Precio: 0.30 NF semanal.  Suscripcion: 15.60 NF el año.

Suplemento Literario

de Solidaridad Obrera

Precio: 0.70 NF monsual.  Suscripcion: 8.40 NF el año

(extraniero 10.00 NF).

Both from: 24 rue Ste-Marthe, Paris X.

ONT

Organo do la CNT de España en Exilio

Precio: 0.30 NF semanal.  Suscripcion: 15.60 NF el año.

Cenit

Revista Mensual

Precio: 1.00 NF

Both From: 4 rue Belfort, Toulouse (H-G) France.

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PUBLIC MEETING

TO COMMEMORATE THE SPANISH REVOLUTION

AND TO EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH THE SPANISH PEOPLE.

Film: Fury over Spain.

Speakers from Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo (in exile),

London Anarchist Group, Syndicalist Workers’ Federation,

Freie Arbeiter Stimme Group.

6 pm SUNDAY JULY 16th 1961

at DENISON HOUSE, VAUXHALL BRIDGE ROAD, LONDON SW1

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Still available:
ANARCHY 1: Rescuing Galbraith from the conventional wisdom; Sex-and-Violence and the origin of the novel (Alex Comfort) Education, equality, opportunity (John Ellerby) The ‘new wave’ in Britain (Nicolas Walter).

ANARCHY 2: Workers’ Control: Looking for a movement; Approaches to industrial democracy (Geoffrey Ostergaard) The gang system in Coventry (Reg Wright) Workers’ control in the building industry (James Lynch) Aspects of syndicalism in Spain, Sweden & U.S.A. (Philip Holgate).

ANARCHY 3: Moving with the times … but not in step; A notebook in South Africa (Maurice Goldman) Africa and the future (Jeremy Westall) Culture and community (Nicolas Walter) Removal of guilt (Anthony Weaver).

ANARCHY 4: Where the shoe pinches: a discussion of “de-institutionalisation” (Colin Ward) Conflicting strains in anarchist thought (George Molnar) Africa and the future: a comment (J.E.)

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