Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War

The Spanish Civil War was the most important warlike conflict that Spain has experienced throughout the 20th century because, In addition to leaving a large number of deaths and material losses, he faced the various political thoughts of the moment. In this lesson from a TEACHER we bring you a summary of anarchism in the Spanish civil war and we will understand his role in this confrontation and the most important moments in which he played a fundamental role.

The July 19, 1936 the military pronouncement of Francisco Franco was carried out in various areas of Spain. One of the places where we will not find the success of this was undoubtedly Catalonia because the workers had been informed of a possible uprising military, in this way we will find that they were the ones who guarded the barracks to prevent the army from going out into the streets on the day 19. Thus we will find in this that only in the region of Girona and Figueres did the uprising triumph.

At first, although Francisco Franco's military uprising had triumphed in other parts of the country,

Catalonia, one of the engines of Spain, had been left in the hands of the people, which was still on the side of the Republic. There were many people who sought asylum in the churches, being above all people belonging to the ideology of the right who do not they felt safe in other places, as a great mass of people took to the streets, armed with what they could to prevent this uprising. On July 20, Catalonia was under the control of the committee of the anti-fascist militias.

Another of the most important places within the start of the Civil War it was undoubtedly Madrid, In this case, the CNT did not have so much organization, it was for this reason that the uprising on the outskirts of the city triumphed. They quickly took the initiative and collected weapons from the insurgents, thus, on July 20, the barracks of the mountain and on the 21st that of Alcalá de Henares, in this way only Guadalajara remained under the control of the rebels.

The Spanish Levant, at first, was outside the orbit of the CNT until on July 20 they declared a general strike due to the events that occurred in other parts of Spain. Without a doubt, the anarchist system wanted to establish a series of independent governments to shape a new reality in the country.

One of the fundamental events carried out by the CNT throughout the confrontation was undoubtedly the creation of militias who were dedicated from the beginning to monitor people outside their thoughts, even arresting and executing them if necessary.

After this great start, the CNT went into the background, as they understood that it was better to help the government of the Republic to control the advance of Francisco Franco.

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Continuing with our summary of anarchism in the Spanish civil war, we must stop at one of the most critical points of the entire start of the war.

As we have commented previously, in many places sand they carried out general strikesEven before the outbreak of the uprising, this had a negative impact on the Spanish economy, undoubtedly due to the fact that all industries were stopped due to this, and therefore the country did not produced.

To this we must mention the deplorable state of the government coffers that he was practically broke.

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Although it may seem that all the leftist ideologies went together during the war, it was not like that. In fact, from the first moment we will find a large number of clashes between the CNT, the communists and the socialists for taking control of the revolution. That is, they all wanted to have the power to introduce their respective changes without yielding practically any of them to the demands of the other.

So we will see how the CNT was practically excluded to obtain control of any Spanish printing press since the beginning of the conflict, being practically impossible to indoctrinate more people. But this was not only verbal, but we will find a series of confrontations between the anarchist militias against the communist militias, showing a clear lack of control.

Although at first we see that everything seems to point to a great lack of control on the part of the anarchists, we must mention the work carried out for the children's education that took place in high schools and athenaeums from different parts of the Spanish geography during the great part of the conflict, being the places where these activities were most carried out, Catalonia, Aragon and even part of Castile.

In these places they went from schooling from about 30,000 children to about 125,000 according to statistics. For this, on many occasions, they used public buildings that had been requisitioned and even churches that had been looted previously.

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