Encyclodedia of Trotskyism On-Line

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Spanish Revolution/Spanish Trotskyism

Grandizo Munis (1912-1989) – Four parts — an obituary, two articles authored by him from La Voz Leninista, no 1, 5 April 1937, translated into English in The Alarm, February/March 1981, and the third from La Lutte Ouvriere, 8 July 1937, translated in Fight, volume 1, no 9, August 1937. Ernest Rogers provides a brief memoir of his meetings with Munis.
– From Revolutionary History Vol.2 No.2, 1989 – 22K

Spain Betrayed – How the Popular Front Opened the Gates to Franco – by Mieczyslaw Bortenstein (M. Casanova). Pamphlet in 24 parts – originally published as a pamphlet in the Le Tract collection (no.3) and in Quatrième Internationale, no.17, May 1939.
– From Revolutionary History Vol.4 No.12, 1991/1992 – 435K

The Spanish Trotskyists and the Foundation of the POUM – by Andy Durgan. Article in 11 parts.
– From Revolutionary History Vol.4 No.12, 1991/1992 – 172K

Marxism, War and Revolution Trotsky and the POUM – by Andy Durgan. Article in PDF format. 450kb.

Stalinism and Spain – by Paul Flewers, and the Spartacist statement in response to it.
– From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No.2, 1988 – 27K

Stalinism and the POUM in the Spanish Revolution. – by Walter Held
– From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No. 2, 1988 – 61K

Trotsky and the POUM. – by Keith Hassell
– From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No.2, 1988 – 11K

The ’May Days’ of 1937 in Barcelona. – by Pierre Broué
– From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No.2, 1988 – 27K

Preface to Barricades in Barcelona – by Ernest Rogers
– From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No.2, 1988 – 12K

Barricades in Barcelona – an eyewitness account by Hugo Oehler (1937)
– From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No.2, 1988 – 61K

The Spanish Left in its Own Words
– From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No.2, 1988 – 12 documents (plus index), 101K

Stalinism in Spain – by Katia Landau, intro by Alfred Rosmer
– This first appeared as a pamphlet under the title Le Stalinisme en Espagne in Paris in 1938, and was republished in 1971 and 1986 as Le Stalinisme, Bourreua de la Revolution Espagnole, 1937-1938 – From Revolutionary History Vol.1 No.2, 1988 – 2 files, 153K

Leon Trotsky’s Writings on the Spanish Revolution