Anarchist Organization
Subtitle: The History of the F.A.I.
By: Juan Gómez Casas ; translated by Abe Bluestein.
Publisher: Black Rose Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Montreal, Canada; Buffalo, USA
Language: eng; spa
Translated from: spa
Translation of: Historia de la FAI
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9780920057407; 9780920057384
Copyright date: 1986
Subjects: F.A.I. (Organization : Spain); Anarchism -- Spain -- History.
Other titles: Historia de la FAI
Description: *Anarchist Organisation* is the first English-language history of the 30,000-member Federacion Anarquista Ibérica (F.A.I.), the unique organisation of Spanish anarchists based on autonomous affinity groups. Dictatorship forced the F.A.I. underground and its members into exile; however, it was revived throughout Spain in the post-Franco years and continues to exist to this day.

This first-hand account traces the history of Spanish anarchism back to the founding of the F.A.I. in Valencia in 1927 and follows the F.A.I.’s development throughout the crucial Civil War years, dealing with its organisational principles, controversies, objectives, and programmes. Juan Gómez Casas was active in the Libertarian Youth during the Spanish Revolution. In 1947 a military tribunal sentenced him to thirty years in prison for belonging to an illegal organisation, nearly fifteen of which he served. He later acted as secretary of the national labour organisation C.N.T. in the post-Franco period and continues to be actively involved in the C.N.T. today. Casas has written several books and has translated a number of others into Spanish, of which Herman Melville’s *Moby Dick* was the first.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Translation of: Historia de la FAI.
Table of contents: title: TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
pagenum: 9; title: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
pagenum: 11; title: INTRODUCTION
pagenum: 13; label: 1:
title: ANTECEDENTS OF THE ALLIANCE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY IN SPAIN
pagenum: 21; title: Fanelli in Madrid and Barcelona
pagenum: 26; title: The Founding Nucleus in Madrid
pagenum: 37; title: The Marxist "Alliance"
pagenum: 32; title: Thomas Gonzalez Morago and the Local Federation of the International in Madrid
pagenum: 36; label: 2:
title: THE C.N.T. AND ANARCHISM UP TO THE PRIMO DE RIVERA DICTATORSHIP
pagenum: 47; title: Creation of the C.N.T.
pagenum: 50; title: Anarchosyndicalism and Anarchism
pagenum: 54; title: The Congress at the Comedia Theatre and the Start of Terrorism
pagenum: 58; title: Creation of the National Federation of Anarchist Groups
pagenum: 63; label: 3:
title: ANARCHISM AND ANARCHOSYNDICAL­ISM DURING THE PRIMO DE RIVERA DICTATORSHIP AND UP TO THE SECOND REPUBLIC
pagenum: 69; title: Existence Underground, Crisis, and Theoretical/Tactical Debates
pagenum: 75; title: Arango and Santillan and La Protesta
pagenum: 79; title: New Theoretical Debates. Attack by Maurin and Oscar Perez Solis
pagenum: 86; title: Organizational Activity up to the Establishment of the F.A.I.
pagenum: 90; title: From the National Plenum in March to the Valencia Conference
pagenum: 97; title: Analysis of The Platform
pagenum: 101; label: 4:
title: THE IBERIAN ANARCHIST FEDERATION
pagenum: 107; title: The Valencia Conference
pagenum: 113; title: Response to the F.A.I.—Los Solidarios
pagenum: 116; title: Fall of the Dictatorship
pagenum: 118; title: The Confederal (C.N.T.) Congress at the Madrid Conservatory
pagenum: 120; title: Reappearance of the Los Solidarios
pagenum: 122; title: Radicalization of Anarchosyndicalism
pagenum: 125; title: Anarchism and Treintismo
pagenum: 125; title: The Myth of the F.A.I.
pagenum: 132; title: The F.A.I. and the Cycle of Insurrections
pagenum: 135; title: National Plenum of Regions
pagenum: 138; title: Revolutionary Strategy and Theory
pagenum: 148; title: The Problem of Libertarian Communism
pagenum: 156; title: National Plenum o f F.A.I. Regions, January–February 1936
pagenum: 163; title: Brief Comments on the F.A.I. National Plenum
pagenum: 177; title: The F.A.I. and the Saragossa Congress
pagenum: 179; label: 5:
title: THE CIVIL WAR
pagenum: 183; title: The C.N.T.–F.A.I. Connection
pagenum: 183; title: Central Committee of Anti-Fascist Militias
pagenum: 187; title: C.N.T.–F.A.I. and Government Collaboration
pagenum: 192; title: Facing International Anarchism and Anarchosyndicalism: Difficult Justifications
pagenum: 200; title: Theory and Practice To May 1937
pagenum: 205; title: Theory and Practice After May 1937
pagenum: 209; title: Councils on Political Affairs and the Peninsular Plenum of the F.A.I. Change of Structure
pagenum: 215; title: Late and Incomplete Reaction of the F.A.I. Military Defeat and Collapse of the Republic
pagenum: 226; title: Disagreement Between the C.N.T. and the F.A.I.
pagenum: 229; title: Predicaments for the F.A.I.
pagenum: 234; title: Fall of Catalonia. The F.A.I. and the Libertarian Movement in the Centre-South Zone
pagenum: 245; title: The F.A.I. Today
pagenum: 250; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY
pagenum: 255; title: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOKS IN ENGLISH
pagenum: 259; title: THE AUTHOR
pagenum: 261