ABSTRACT
On 2 July 1930, Valeriano Orobón wrote to Eusebio Carbó from Berlin. Orobón was a CNT (National Confederation of Labour) delegate to the AIT (International Association of Workers) at the time, and was in search of an ‘anarcho-syndicalist synthesis’ which would avoid ‘both syndicalist opportunism and anarchist particularism’. This was an aim he had pursued at various moments during his life. Carbó had been a teacher, a journalist, a ‘wild anarchist,’ a union organiser and a propagandist. He had been expelled from several countries for his ideas and imprisoned in his own, and had only just regained his precious freedom. ‘The liberal constitutional breeze which is blowing through Spain at the moment’, Orobón told him, ‘will not be sufficient. We will need a hurricane.’
