Class, nation and historical memory in anarchist mobilizing discourses in the Spanish Civil War

(July 1936 - May 1937)

Abstract

The present study dissects, from hemerographic sources, the anarchist mobilizing discourses during the Spanish Civil War during the period from the coup of July 18 to the events of May 1937. The text examines how class and nation identities merged in anarcho-syndicalist propaganda. It is noted a interpretation of the war as a struggle for national liberation and class conflict, with all its historical references, symbols and signifiers of a proletarian Spanish identity opposed to that defended by the rebels in 1936. It also analyses the desire to forge ties of solidarity between Catalonia and the rest of the peninsular peoples within the framework of a federal Spain.