"Rise" and "fall" of the radical left in the post-Francoist Spain. The case of the anarchist movement (Valencia, 1975-1980).

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Keywords:

anarchism, transition to democracy, worker's movement, memory, oral history

Abstract

This article aims to explore the history of the radical left during the transition to democracy through the case of the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist movement. His purpose is to ask why some radical projects resonated among the population after the death of the dictator, but ceased to be options with social roots in just a couple of years. For these, it is based on an interpretative reading of the experience and memory of former militants obtained through interviews.

Author Biography

Vicent Bellver Loizaga , Universitat de València

PhD in Contemporary History with international mention (2019). His doctoral thesis focused on the experiences and subjectivities of libertarians during the 1970s and 1980s, using, above all, the tools of oral history. Author of the book Hilos rojinegros. El movimiento libertario en València en el posfranquismo (c. 1968-c.1990).

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Published

2024-03-26

Issue

No. 108 (2024)

Section

Estudios