New: Ready for Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938 by Agustín Guillamón

“Ready for Revolution” studies the origins and achievements of the anarchist Defence Committees who formed the backbone of resistance to the military coup of July 1936. After that, they reorganised life in the working class districts of Barcelona. “Ready for Revolution” also looks at how the revolutionaries were defeated, and the consequences.

It will make essential reading for those interested in Spanish anarchism, in the Spanish Civil War, or in anarchist ideas in practice.

Agustín Guillamón is an independent historian, editor of “Balance”, a magazine dedicated to new research on the Spanish Revolution, and the author of “The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937–1939” and “The Committees Revolution”.

“Ready for Revolution: The CNT Defense Committees in Barcelona, 1933-1938” by Agustin Guillamon, translated by Paul Sharkey, published by AK Press and the Kate Sharpley Library.

ISBN 9781849351423.

Copies available in the USA. $14.95

Due to be published in the UK: 3rd April 2014. £10.95

http://www.akpress.org/ready-for-revolution.html

Read the Kate Sharpley Library’s introduction to “Ready for revolution”:

http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/f4qsnb



Read “The CNT defense committees in Barcelona 1933–1938: An interview with Agustín Guillamón”:

http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/z61462