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CNT-FAI Revolution
Spanish anarchism · 1936–1939 · Catalonia, Aragón · Anarchist · Movement · coding confidence medium
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Core principles
Workers and peasants collectivising land and industry directly, while fighting a war against a military coup.
Economic model
Collectivised farms and factories run by assemblies; money abolished in some villages.
Organisation of powers
Federated committees with mandated delegates; no state apparatus in the collectivised zones.
Reading note
The largest anarchist economy ever created. Suppressed by its own side's communist ministers in 1937.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored −09
Coded −9: collectivised farms and factories run by assemblies.
- Documented act or statuteAround 1,700 agrarian collectives operated in the republican zone; money was abolished in some villages.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored −07
Coded −7: anticlerical, with rationalist schools and legalised abortion in Catalonia.
- Documented act or statuteCatalonia legalised abortion in December 1936, the first in Western Europe.
AU · Organisation of power · scored −08
Coded −8: federated committees with mandated delegates and no state apparatus.
- Documented act or statuteThe Council of Aragón administered the region through delegates from the collectives.
SC · Scale of decision · scored −09
Coded −9: the collective and the locality as the unit.
- Documented act or statuteCoordination ran through regional plenums of delegates rather than a government.
ID · Rule of membership · scored −07
Coded −7: internationalist, with volunteers from across Europe.
- Documented act or statuteThe militia columns included foreign volunteers organised without national units.
CH · Method and tempo · scored +08
Coded +8: revolution carried out during an armed defence against a coup.
- Documented act or statuteThe May Days of 1937 ended with the collectives suppressed by the republican government.
Where it came from, and what came after
- is a continuation ofAnarcho-Syndicalism
The Spanish confederation was the largest anarcho-syndicalist organisation ever built.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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