ABSTRACT
Correcting the route taken meant taking one that was different from that which led to insurrection, and relative to the bloody outcome of the earlier skirmishes, for the CNT, this was a choice that did not bring with it other costs. As is usual with anarcho-syndicalism’s own self-analysis, this change in direction was not the result of its own failures nor those of its leaders. Thus, in their reality, they had always been where they should have been, carrying out their duty in the face of adversity and saving revolutionary dignity, which was something similar to the dignity of the proletariat. Rather it was the ‘social panorama of Spain’ which had changed. Now that bourgeois democracy had failed, the ´possible political solutions’ had been reduced to ´the simple antithesis of fascism or social revolution’. The alarm was sounding and the moment had arrived to ‘talk seriously about a unified front, an alliance and revolutionary unity’.
