The three years between 1936 and 1939 in Spain saw the greatest scale of workplace democracy the world has experienced in the West.
This article describes how the radical labor union, the CNT, built workers’ anarcho-communism from the bottom up, from the local to the national level. This format includes general assemblies, mandated delegates, rotated and strictly recallable. Two and one half million workers were in the union and just as many were on the farms.
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And by the way, if you have a ‘contact’ form somewhere on this site, I can’t find it. Your address (still in use in June 2019) seems to be no longer in use. Emailed you there on May 23. No response.
Hello Ivan:
My name is Barbara MacLean and I’m the co-founder and co-organizer for Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism.
Please tell me what email address you used. It may be outdated and thank you for letting me know. I’ll check it now to see if I can update it.
WordPress is NOT the most user-friendly platform to use as you can probably imagine. I do, however, check on a regular basis to see any comments. I did see your comments, approved it and responded.
Thank you for contacting you and wishing you well –
Barbara
Book review: ‘Revolution and the State: Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War’ :
https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-05-11/revolution-and-the-state-anarchism-in-the-spanish-civil-war