num_pages: 270
description: "Magnificent." Paul Preston, author of "The Spanish Holocaust"Brick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of Jose Peirats (1908 1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective agent the working class Peirats was born into and the affective ties of kinship, friendship, and community that cemented into a movement, the most powerful of its type in the world.Chris Ealham is the author of "Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 1898 1937.""
title: Living Anarchism: Jose Peirats and the Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalist Movement
publisher: AK Press