We’re very excited to announce three online discussion events, set to take place on July 18th and 19th, marking the 90th anniversary of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War. More information and links to register below.
These events are organized by Black Rose/Rosa Negra and sponsored by AK Press.
No other topic in the history of the anarchist movement has been more thoroughly examined and debated than the Spanish Revolution & Civil War. And for good reason; the events that began in July 1936 culminated with millions of workers’ active participation in a revolutionary project aiming to vanquish the state and class society and to replace them with self-managed socialism. Despite all manner of contradictions and obstacles, they came close.
Instead of looking back at this relatively brief episode of revolutionary upheaval and social transformation as a historical novelty—or worse, as an opportunity to rehash tired sectarian squabbles—it’s our responsibility as revolutionaries to retrieve its enduring lessons and to figure out how to apply them to our work today. This is our objective with the three discussions we’ve organized for the weekend of July 18th and 19th.
Registration is required and is free. There are unique registration links for each day of the series, you must register for each day you wish to attend!
All registrants will be entered to win a $25 gift certificate for use in the AK Press webstore.
July 18th
Session 1: The Revolution, the Civil War, and the State
12:00 pm PDT / 1:00 MDT / 2:00 CDT / 3:00 EDT – [7:00 pm UTC]
Danny Evans, author of Revolution and the State (AK Press 2020), will kick things off with a discussion covering the broad sweep of events that define the Spanish Civil War & Revolution. Special attention will be given to the role of the state and the attempt to abolish it.
July 19th
Session 2: Revolutionary Feminism and Feminism in the Revolution
10:00 am PDT / 11:00 am MDT / 12 pm CDT / 1 pm EDT – [5:00 pm UTC]
Prof. Martha Ackelsberg, author of Free Women of Spain (AK Press 2004), joins us to discuss the aims, organization, and activity of women anarchists as they extended the revolution into all aspects of social life, including the abolition of patriarchal domination.
Session 3: Today’s Spanish and Catalan Anarchists on the Revolution’s Enduring Legacies and Lessons
Members of the Spanish and Catalan anarchist political organizations LIZA and Embat will join us to discuss how the memory of the 1936 Revolution and Civil War has come to shape the anarchist movement today, and what lessons are most crucial for revolutionaries to take away.
Remember! You must register for each date you would like to attend!
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