by Agustín Guillamón, translated by Paul Sharkey
AK Press
2/11/2014, paperback
SKU: 9781849351423
The Spanish Revolution wasn’t spontaneous. The clandestine armed wing of the anarchist workers’ movement became the building block and rampart in the fight against fascism, church, and state. Tensions and betrayals on the streets of Barcelona were more complex than simple narratives suggest, and Ready for Revolution places readers in the middle of the fray.
Reviews:
“Agustín Guillamón’s latest work, Ready for Revolution, is one of the most illuminating and stimulating books on the CNT to appear since José Peirats’s The CNT in the Spanish Revolution. The structure and role of the union’s defense and action groups is of crucial importance not only in understanding the anarchist core of the CNT unions during that pivotal period in Spain’s history, but it provides today’s industrial, commercial, environmental, and social activists with useful organizational insights—a must have.” — Stuart Christie, author of We the Anarchists: A Study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), 1927–1937 and Granny Made Me an Anarchist: General Franco, The Angry Brigade and Me.
About the Contributors:
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 The Committees Revolution.
Paul Sharkey is one of the most well-known and highly respected translators of anarchist writings of the past thirty years. He has translated countless works including Insurrection, Rebellion in Patagonia, The Weight of the Stars, and The Sons of Night. He lives in Belfast, Ireland.