ABSTRACT

This book investigates urban conflict, popular protest and social control in Barcelona during the period 1898-1937. Focusing upon the sources of anarchist power in the city and the role of the organised anarchist movement during the Second Republic the volume concludes with an analysis of the decline of the power of the anarchist movement during the civil war in its identification of the local conditions that made Barcelona into the capital of European anarchism.

chapter 1|22 pages

The making of a divided city

chapter 5|28 pages

The struggle to survive

Unemployed self-help and direct action during the Republic

chapter 7|21 pages

Cultural battles

Class and criminality

chapter 8|25 pages

An ‘apolitical' revolution

Anarchism, revolution and civil war