Agustín GuillamónInsurrection
The Bloody Events of May 1937 in Barcelona
Übersetzer: Sharkey, Paul
Agustín Guillamón is an independent historian, editor of Balance, a magazine dedicated to new research on the Spanish Revolution, and the author of The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937-1939 and Ready for Revolution . Paul Sharkey has, as an accomplished translator, made a vast body of anarchist texts available to English-language readers. His numerous translations include the works of Nestor Makhno, Osvaldo Bayer, Errico Malatesta, Daniel Guérin, José Peirats, and Antonio Téllez.
Contents
Index of Initials
1) Introduction
2) Background to May
3) The Events of May 1937
4) The Aftermath of May
5) The Insurrection in Summary: Clarifying the Revolutionary Thread of the
CNT
6) From the Defense Cadres to the Friends of Durruti's Analysis of the
Organs of Power. Plus Some Untimely Considerations.
7Conclusions
8) Glossary
9) Appendices
1. --The Karl Marx Barracks Massacre
2. --Correspondence between Agustín Guillamón and José Quesada Suárez
(1996). The Trotskyists in May 1937
3. --The Murder and Burial of Camillo Berneri and Francesco Barbieri in
Barcelona, May 1937
4. --The POUM Local Committee's Report on May 1937
5. --Companys Ordered Aerial Bombing of Barcelona
6. --Meeting of the POUM's International Secretariat (14 May 1937)
7. --The May Events at La Batalla (Notes by Molins i Fábrega)
8. --Josep Rebull Article on the May Events
9. --Testimony of Severino Campos and Matías Suñer Vidal. Julián
Merino's Leadership of the May Insurrection and the Formation of the
CNT Revolutionary Committee
10. --Biography of Julián Merino
10) Bibliography
11) Index
