Already in these first weeks, two groups were established within the anarcho-syndicalist revolutionary sectors: the radical group, fundamentally linked to the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) and through it to the CNT, which understood the phenomenon in which it participated as a traditional revolution; and the possibilist group, made up of ...

Sep 3, 2006 · The fascists made some headway in parts of the country but in Catalonia, and especially Barcelona, the CNT (Anarcho-Syndicalist union) showed how to fight. They declared a general strike and took to the streets looking for arms which the government refused to give them.

Feb 28, 1993 · And to the degree that the CNT-FAI (for the two organizations became fatally coupled after July 1936) exercised the major influence in an area, the collectives proved to be generally more durable, communist and resistant to Stalinist counterrevolution than other republican-held areas of Spain.

The Iberian Anarchist Federation (Spanish: Federación Anarquista Ibérica, FAI) is a Spanish anarchist organization. Due to its close relation with the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT) anarcho-syndicalist union , it is often abbreviated as CNT-FAI .

Jun 25, 2008 · The story of members of the CNT and other Spanish anti-fascists left stranded in the Soviet Union following the Spanish civil war.

The anarchist revolutionaries in the CNT formed the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI) in 1927, to guard against reformism within the CNT, as well as to maintain its opposition to any “infiltration” by other political forces.

On the morning of 19 July 1936, detachments of the Spanish Army in Barcelona left their barracks and marched into the city centre. There they were confronted by anarchist militias and Assault Guards, who had constructed barricades and aimed to …

Feb 27, 2015 · The CNT were bitterly divided, many militants saw this as a chance to turn the tide against the counter-revolution and settle old scores. The CNT-FAI leaders, by now deeply committed to collaboration and a ‘war before revolution’ policy, saw no alternative but to end the strife immediately.

When leaders of the Spanish armed forces rose up against the Republic, women and men of the CNT-FAI were among the first to take up arms against them. And they did not do so alone. In the next article in this series, I take up the story of those who fought alongside the libertarian Left.

Within this period of illegality a new anarchist organisation was formed: the Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI), which sought to maintain the CNT’s revolutionary direction against syndicalist ‘adaptation’.