REFORMS VERSUS REVOLUTION: ANARCHISM AND THE SECOND REPUBLIC

Abstract

The CNT maintained very difficult relations with the Republic and ex-perienced different states of mind, from the initial expectations of some to the useless insurrections of others, passing through the hostility of the majority of its affiliates. When all these roads were being remade, the military uprising of July 1936 arrived. Suddenly, anarcho-syndicalism found what it had sought so badly without success, with its historic opportunity to make revolution, to make the egalitarian dream come true. It is an eight-year story that ended, after the victory of Franco's army, in tragedy for Spanish anarchism, with thousands of its militants killed, in prisons or in exile.

Keywords

• national confederation of labor (cnt)
• spanish republic
• anarchism
• civil war 1936-1939
• revolution