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The history of the legendary Column who took the fight to fascism and defied the dictatorship springing up in their wake, riding out the rise and fall of the Spanish Revolution that raged alongside the Civil War. Abel Paz uses the testimony of its members, extracts from their newspaper Línea de Fuego, and internal documents to tell their remarkable story.
Abel Paz (1921–2009) spent most of his life authoring biographical and autobiographical works and delivering lectures celebrating the achievements of the anarchists in the Spanish revolution. His book Durruti in the Spanish Revolution was published by AK Press in 2006.
Abel Paz: Abel Paz (1921–2009) was fifteen when the Spanish Revolution began. After the revolution's defeat, he spent several years in exile, returning to Spain in 1942 as a guerrilla fighter against the Franco regime. He spent most of the subsequent eleven years in prison. Paz spent the remainder of his life authoring biographical and autobiographical works and delivering lectures celebrating the achievements of the anarchists in the Spanish revolution.
By Way of Historical Introduction
Declaration
I. Levante Confronts the Mutinous Generals
II. Valencia on the Edge
III. The Militias Push Against Teruel
IV. From Theory to Revolutionary Practice
V. The Achievements of the Iron Column
VI. The Bureaucratisation of the Rearguard
VII. The Iron Column and the Rearguard
VIII. The Revolution Under Siege
IX. The Prelude to May 1937
X. The CNT Enters the Government
XI. The Government Settles in Valencia
XII. Militias or Army?
XIII. The Iron Column and Militarisation
XIV. The Counterrevolution On The Move
XV. Teruel Torn Between Franco and Largo Caballero
XVI. The Prologue to Militarisation
XVII. The Iron Column Against Itself
XVIII. The Testimony of an 'Uncontrollable'
Epilogue
Appendices
Línea de Fuego
Composition of the Iron Column
The Counterrevolution in Levante
The Plenum of Confederal and Anarchist Columns
Dossier on Gino Bibbi
In Memory of José Pellicer
Eye-witness in Barcelona, by George Orwell
Bibliography