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 Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
English Revolution – (1642-1653) – Commenced as a civil war between Parliament and King, culminating in the execution of Charles I and the establishment of a republican Protectorate.
Revolutions of 1848 – (1848) – Wave of failed liberal and republican revolutions that swept Europe.
Glorious Revolution – (England in (1688) – Overthrow of King James II and establishment of a Whig-dominated Protestant constitutional monarchy.
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 SOMOS PRIMOS: Spanish Patriots in the American Revolution
The Spanish diplomat died in Washington’s headquarters, at Morristown, in April 1780.
The Spanish Council had sent Ulloa as governor under the military jurisdiction of the government in la Havana.
The funding arrangements are also discussed in Loliannette, Spanish diplomatic policy and contribution to the United States independence (Umi, 1990).
http://www.somosprimos.com/hough/hough.htm   (16448 words)

  
 Orwell and the Spanish Revolution
He went on to make it clear that he now accepted the POUM position that the revolution had to be completed if the war were to be won: they made the mistake 'of leaving the Republican Government in nominal control'.
At least initially, the dominant position was that the revolutionary process had to be temporarily suspended and the bourgeois state maintained in order to maximise unity in the war against the fascists and to avoid the international isolation of the Republic.
This is the decisive moment for the Revolution.
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj62/newsinger.htm   (8249 words)

  
 The Spanish Revolution
Thus one of the great results of the Spanish battles will be to kill the old Liberal and Anarchist particularisms and federalisms that have flourished for so long a time in Spain.
All the signs point to the desertion of the ship of state by the bourgeois republican rats.
This is the best guarantee that the rebellion will be liquidated entirely and the reactionists thoroughly defeated.
http://www.weisbord.org/Revolution.htm   (8817 words)

  
 The Spanish Revolution Betrayed
The leaders of the Spanish "Communist" Party became the most fervent defenders of capitalist "law and order".
Andres Nin, ironically in view of his fate, became councillor for justice.
They reduced themselves to the role of unpaid advisers of the capitalist and reformist politicians, instead of pursuing an independent class policy.
http://www.marxist.com/History/spanish_revolution_AW_86.html   (3180 words)

  
 SPANISH REVOLUTION OF 1936
In a decade of cataclysmic worldwide depression and spreading fascism, the revolution in Spain signaled a message of renewed hope to the scattered forces of working-class emancipation throughout the globe, not least in the United States.
The CNT's U.S. representative, Spanish-born Maximiliano Olay--veteran of anarchist labor struggles in Cuba and among immigrant cigar-makers in Tampa, Florida, and for many years a leading figure of Chicago's Free Society Group--moved to New York and opened an office for propaganda on lower Fifth Avenue.
The first U.S. study of the Spanish Revolution was Trotskyist Felix Morrow's pamphlet Civil War in Spain (September 1936), followed a little over a year later by his full-length Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/spain-overview.html   (791 words)

  
 Spanish Revolution - definition of Spanish Revolution in Encyclopedia
This article is about the one which took place in part of the territory under Republican control during the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939), and which was predominantly a social revolution.
The Commuist policy was that the war was not the time for the revolution, that until victory in the war was won the goal had to be the defeat of the Franco forces, not the abolition of capitalism, which was to be addressed once the war had been won.
In part, this was due to the policies of the Communist Party of Spain, which took its cues from the foreign ministry of Stalin's Soviet Union, the source of most of the foreign aid received by the Republican side.
http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Spanish_Revolution   (704 words)

  
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The Spanish Anarchists defended and continue to defend bourgeois counterrevolution from the proletariat revolution.
Louis Fischer, with his ignorance and smugness, with his provincial rationalism and congenital deafness to revolution, is the most repulsive representative of this unattractive brotherhood.
On the other hand, the Bolsheviks were compelled, in order to carry the democratic revolution through to the end, to overthrow the government of “democratic” charlatans and babblers.
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1938/1938-spain01.htm   (6513 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Captains' Revolution (Spanish And Portuguese History) - Encyclopedia
Captains' Revolution, coup staged (Apr. 25, 1974) by military officers who opposed Portugal's policy toward its African territories.
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Captains' Revolution
By early 1974 dissatisfaction with the debilitating, seemingly endless war in Africa, and with compulsory four-year military service, together with political suppression and a deteriorating economy, resulted in growing unrest and increased urban guerrilla activity within Portugal.
http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/Captains.html   (266 words)

  
 Abe Lincoln Brigade
They agreed to a nonintervention pact and the United States embargoed aid to the Spanish belligerents, policies intended to de-escalate the war but whose selective enforcement undermined the Republic.
The Wound in the Heart: America and the Spanish Civil War.
The reaction of Western governments to the war was ambivalent and duplicitous.
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/abe-brigade.html   (1104 words)

  
 The Spanish Revolution at the Crossroads
This league has a non-separatist position and have Cambo, who was Minister of Law under Alphonso, as their leader.
This marks the third period of the Revolution.
Before the Revolution, the Communist Party had about 2,000 members which were not well organized.
http://www.weisbord.org/Crossroads.htm   (3632 words)

  
 Walter Held: Stalinism and the POUM in the Spanish Revolution - RH
However, in the same number of the Revolution Espagnole in which we are told of the creation of a new government with Andres Nin as Minister of Justice, we are told of the liquidation of the Central Committee of the Militias.
He was not expelled from the Socialist Party until April 1946, but always in search of an infallible leader, he later flirted with Titoism and Maoism, becoming the president of FRAP.
In the first number of their bulletin appearing in French, Revolution Espagnole, the POUM declares in a leading article on the ‘Political Principles of the POUM’ that: ‘The Popular Front government is in the hands of the Left Republican Azaña and its programme, supported by all parties, does not go beyond bourgeois reformism.
http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/spain/spain02.htm   (7263 words)

  
 Ken Loach's Land and Freedom: The Spanish revolution betrayed
After a battle in which POUM forces, desperately short of supplies, defeat the fascists, units of the republican army arrive to arrest the POUM leaders and disperse the militia.
It says that the present state of affairs was not inevitable, and that the working class is capable of uplifting and liberating itself.
The film begins in the present: a young woman in Liverpool discovers after her grandfather's death that he fought as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War.
http://wsws.org/arts/1998/aug1998/land-96.shtml   (1507 words)

  
 The Spanish Revolution & Civil War 1936-1939
This Union Ring site is owned by The Spanish Revolution & Civil War 1936-1939.
Spanish Civil War discussion on National Public Radio, August 1,1996.
Flags of the Republic and the Civil War
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9820   (650 words)

  
 EUH46642004
Readings: Course Reserve: E. Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, pp.
Spain at War: The Spanish Civil War in Context, 1931-1939.
Week 11: 2 November/ Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gesenwei/EUH46642004.html   (1031 words)

  
 Durgan: Spanish Trotskyists and the POUM (Part 8)
La Batalla, 13 September, 4 October and 8 November 1935; La Nueva Era, February, May and July 1936.
Trotsky argued that the “democratic and Socialist revolutions” were, as the October Revolution in 1917 had shown, “on opposite sides of the barricades”.
[124] In the late 1920s Maurín had argued that the coming Spanish revolution would be democratic.
http://www.marxists.org.uk/history/etol/document/poum/pt8.htm   (1308 words)

  
 The Spanish Revolution, 1936-39
Gabriel Jackson's The Spanish Republic and Civil War, 1931-1939
The Spanish Civil War: Anarchism in Action - Eddie Conlon, WSM
Burnett Bolloten, The Spanish Revolution: The Left and the Struggle for Power during the Civil War
http://recollectionbooks.com/anow/history/spain   (305 words)

  
 The Spanish Revolution of 1936
Thus, in the midst of the Spanish Civil War, the Spanish Revolution was born.
Posters from the Spanish Civil War and Revolution
Photos from the Spanish Civil War and Revolution
http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net/spain36   (451 words)

  
 Anarchism in the Spanish Revolution of 1936 - Spanish Civil War
The Anarchist Collectives in the Countryside during the Spanish Civil War
Stalin's Foreign Policy in the Spanish Civil War and the Barcelona Uprising of May, 1937
framegrabs from CNT newsreel shot during the Spanish Civil War
http://struggle.ws/spaindx.html   (1379 words)

  
 Spanish Revolution
The Bolshevik Revolution, by contrast, was controlled by an elite party and was a political revolution.
Augustin Souchy concludes in one of his many books on the Spanish Revolution that:
The intermeshing of local, regional, and national federations of peasant collectives (which included 90% of the poorest peasants) with the federations of urban socialized enterprises was the culmination of a process which traces back to the latter half of the 19th century.
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 Mujeres Libres - Women anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
Indeed many members of Mujeres Libres were only 13 or 14 years old when the revolution started.
Mujeres Libres (Free Women) were a group of women anarchists who organised and fought both for women's liberation and an anarchist revolution during the Spanish Civil War.
However the revolution was more than defeating fascism, it was about building a new society which cared for the needs of all.
http://struggle.ws/ws98/ws54_mujeres_libres.html   (1184 words)

  
 ANARCHIST SPAIN
From the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War
Vincent Ruiz, a Spanish anarchist who participated in the Spanish Civil War and Revolution died after a long illness last Wednesday.
Vincent was one of the last direct links that Australia's anarchists had with anarchists who participated in the anarchist inspired social revolution during the Spanish Civil War.
http://lacucaracha.info/scw/9820/spain8.html   (345 words)

  
 Anarchists In The Spanish Revolution :: AK Press
Models Of Revolution: Rural Women And Anarchist Collectivization In Civil War Spain
Appendix to The Anarchists of the Spanish Revolution
An account of the Spanish Revolution by a lifelong member of the CNT.
http://www.akpress.org/1996/items/anarchistsinthespanishrevolution   (77 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Spanish American Revolution 1808-1826 (Revolutions in the Modern World): Books: John Lynch
The Americas in the Age of Revolution : 1750-1850 by Lester D. Langley
The reluctance of Spanish Monarchy (and later even of liberals) led to independence basically motivated for the economic and social interests of the Creoles (Spanish born in America).
This book was a very well written and looks at every aspect of the revolution.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393955370?v=glance   (721 words)

  
 Anarchists in the Spanish Revolution
It became known, in turn, as the Federation of Workers of the Spanish Region (1881-1889), the Pact for Union and Solidarity (1889-1896), Worker Solidarity (1904-1909), and since 1910 as the National Confederation of Labour, CNT (Confederación Nacional del Trabajo)."
It began as the Spanish Regional Federation, outlawed from 1872 to 1874 but continuing underground until the dissolution of the International.
It did not consider the thorny problem of means and ends.
http://anarchosyndicalism.net/history/anarchists.htm   (217 words)

  
 Spanish Civil War History
SPANISH REVOLUTION OF 1936 (University of Pennsylvania Site
After the Revolution, by Diego Abad de Santillan
They Still Draw Pictures, children's drawings during the war
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/spancivwar/spancivwarhis.html   (71 words)

  
 Images from the Spanish Revolution of 1936
Several pictures of militia leaving for front in first days of Revolution
More pictures of the Militia leaving for the front
The meaning of the Spanish Revolution for anarchism today
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2419/spaindx.html   (134 words)

  
 Picturebooks @ nothingness.org: 1936 -- The Spanish Revolution
Picturebooks @ nothingness.org: 1936 -- The Spanish Revolution
http://picturebook.nothingness.org/pbook/1936/display/20   (22 words)

  
 Writings on The Spanish Revolution
1931: The Role of Strikes in a Revolution
1931: The Problems Of The Spanish Revolution From Day To Day [Series of letters—64k]
1931: The Spanish Revolution and the Dangers Threatening It [Thesis—64k]
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/spain   (63 words)

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