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Abel Paz
Abel Paz (August 12, 1921 – April 13, 2009) was a Spanish anarchist and historian who fought in the Spanish Civil War. He wrote multiple volumes on anarchist history, including a biography of Buenaventura Durruti, an influential anarchist during the war. He kept the anarchist tradition throughout his life, including a decade in Francoist Spain's jails and multiple decades in exile in France. Background Abel Paz was born Diego Camacho Escámez on August 12, 1921, in Almería, southeastern Andalusia, Spain. When he was six years old, he moved in with his Barcelonan uncle, who was a member of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist labor union. Before his teens, Paz had joined the libertarian Francisco Ferrer, Ferrerist school Escuela Natura in Barcelona's El Clot working class district. He moved back briefly to Almería, where his mother was, too, a CNT member and subscribed to the Libertarian Youth in 1935. Career Spanish Civil War B ...
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Almería
Almería (, , ) is a city and municipalities in Spain, municipality of Spain, located in Andalusia. It is the capital of the province of Almería, province of the same name. It lies in southeastern Iberian Peninsula, Iberia on the Mediterranean Sea. Caliph Abd al-Rahman III founded the city in 955. The city grew wealthy during the Islamic era, becoming a world city throughout the 11th and 12th centuries. It enjoyed an active port that traded Almerían silk, silk, oil, and raisins. Being adjacent to a small desert, Almería has an exceptionally dry climate by European standards. Etymology The name "Almería" comes from the city's former Arabic name, ''Madīnat al-Mariyya'', meaning "city of the watchtower". As the settlement was originally the port or coastal suburb of Pechina, it was initially known as ''Mariyyat al-Bajjāna'' (''Bajjāna'' being the Arabic name for Pechina). History The origin of Almería is connected to the 9th-century establishment of the so-called Republic ...
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Pronunciamiento
A is a form of military rebellion or coup d'état particularly associated with Spain, Portugal and Ibero-America, especially in the 19th century. Typology The is one category of praetorianism: the practice of military figures acting as political actors in their own right, rather than as the politically-neutral instrument of civilian government. In a classic coup d'état a rebel faction which controls some critical element of the armed forces seizes control of the state by a sudden movement, organized and executed in stealth. A , in contrast, is by definition a public performance designed to rally public opinion to a dissident faction. A group of military officers, often mid-ranking, ''publicly'' declare their opposition to the current government (head of state and/or cabinet, who may be legally elected civilians or the result of a previous coup). are normally 'bloodless' or close to it, intending to bring about a change in government or regime by ''threatening'' violence an ...
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Anarchist Studies
''Anarchist Studies'' is a biannual academic journal on anarchism. It takes an interdisciplinary approach, examining the history, culture, and theory of anarchism. The journal was established in 1993 and is edited by Ruth Kinna and published by Lawrence and Wishart. Overview The journal focusses on three broad themes: the re-evaluation of anarchist history, with regard to issues of culture, philosophy, and political action; the potential future of anarchism as a form of critical political action; and the application of anarchist ideas as an instrument of scholarly research. The journal publishes special issues on topics which have included sexuality, science-fiction, and "anarchism after September 11," as well as historical research on Leo Tolstoy, Taoism, John Locke, and post-structuralism. More recently, a central focus of the journal has been anarchism's relation to globalisation Globalization is the process of increasing interdependence and integration among the ec ...
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International Review Of Social History
The ''International Review of Social History'' (IRSH) is a scholarly journal founded, in its current format, in 1956, by the International Institute of Social History (IISH). The current academic journal revived an earlier publication by the same name issued by IISH from 1936 until its termination due to the approach of World War II in 1938. History Precursor In 1936, the International Institute of Social History established its first publication, the ''International Review for Social History'' (IRSH). This publication was joined by another, the ''Bulletin of the International Review of Social History,'' in 1937. Although both were interrupted by World War II, with the first iteration of the IRSH terminated in 1938, some ten volumes were published under that name, ending in 1955. The prewar ''International Review for Social History'' was a multilingual publication, including material published in English, German, Dutch, and French. Establishment A revived postwar ''Internatio ...
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WorkingUSA
''Journal of Labor and Society'', formerly ''WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor and Society'', is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Brill covering the political economy of labour, labor movements, and class relations throughout the world. The journal is published in print and online. It focuses on the current context and shape of capitalist social relations, business and corporations, labor relations, the working class and the labor unions in the Global South. The journal encourages submissions on the political economy of imperialism, global inequality and poverty, labor and the right wing, and political movements. The journal was established in 1997 and published by Wiley Periodicals through December 2020. In January 2021, ''Journal of Labor and Society'' begins publishing with Brill. The editor is Immanuel Ness. The title reflects the journal's commitment to publishing peer-reviewed scientific research into the social, political, economic, and cultural condi ...
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Chuck W
Chuck () is a masculine given name or a nickname for Charles or Charlie. It may refer to: People Arts and entertainment * Chuck Alaimo, American saxophonist, leader of the Chuck Alaimo Quartet * Chuck Barris (1929–2017), American TV producer * Chuck Berry (1926–2017), American rock and roll musician * Chuck Brown (1936–2012), American guitarist and singer * Chuck Close (1940–2021), American painter and photographer * Chuck Comeau (born 1979), Canadian drummer * Chuck Connors (1921–1992), American athlete and actor * Chuck D (born 1960), stage name of Carlton Douglas Ridenhour, American rapper * Chuck Garric, rock bassist of Alice Cooper * Charlton Heston, "Chuck", (1923–2008), American actor and political activist * Chuck Holmes (entrepreneur) (1945–2000), American entrepreneur and philanthropist, founded Falcon Studios * Chuck Jackson (1937–2023), American R&B singer * Chuck Jackson (musician) (born 1953), Canadian musician * Chuck Jones (1912–2002), Ameri ...
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AK Press
AK Press is a workers' self-management, worker-managed, independent publisher and book distributor that specializes in publishing books about anarchism and the Far-left politics, radical left. Operated out of Chico, California, United States, with a branch in Edinburgh, Scotland, the company is co-op, collectively owned. History AK was founded in Stirling, Scotland, Stirling, Scotland, by Ramsey Kanaan in 1987 as a small Zine distro, mail-order distribution outlet, eventually expanding into independent publishing and moving the Scotland base of operations to Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, and later opening a US base of operations in Oakland, California. The press was named for Kanaan's mother, Ann Kanaan. Kanaan and several other members of AK Press left in 2007 to form PM Press. After operating out of the Bay Area for decades, in March 2015, a deadly fire at a warehouse complex in West Oakland, California, West Oakland, California, damaged AK Press's warehouse and prompted ...
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Abel Paz In His House
Abel ( ''Hébel'', in pausa ''Hā́ḇel''; ''Hábel''; , ''Hābēl'') is a biblical figure in the Book of Genesis within the Abrahamic religions. Born as the second son of Adam and Eve, the first two humans created by God, he was a shepherd who offered his firstborn flock to God as a religious offering. God accepted Abel's offering but not the offering of his older brother Cain, leading Cain to stone Abel to death out of jealousy. This act marked the first death in biblical history, making Abel the first murder victim. Life and death Interpretations Jewish and Christian interpretations According to the narrative in Genesis, Abel is Eve's second son. His name in Hebrew is composed of the same three consonants as a root meaning "the air that remains after you exhale" also synonymous in Hebrew to "nothing", as stated in Ecclesiastes. Julius Wellhausen has proposed that the name is independent of the root. Eberhard Schrader had previously put forward the Akkadian (Old Assyrian ...
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Land And Freedom (film)
''Land and Freedom'' (or ''Tierra y Libertad'') is a 1995 film directed by Ken Loach and written by Jim Allen. The film narrates the story of David Carr, an unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, who decides to fight in the Spanish Civil War for the republicans, a supported by Socialists, Communists and Anarchists against a nationalist coup d'état. The film won the FIPRESCI International Critics Prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes. Plot The film's narrative unfolds in a long flashback. Elderly David Carr has died of a heart attack and his granddaughter discovers old letters, newspapers and other documents in his room: what we see in the film is what he had lived. Carr, a young unemployed worker and member of the Communist Party, leaves Liverpool and travels to Spain to join the International Brigades. He crosses the Spanish border in Catalonia and ...
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Ken Loach
Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is a retiredhttps://variety.com/2024/film/global/ken-loach-retirement-the-old-oak-jonathan-glazer-oscars-speech-1235956589/ English filmmaker. His socially critical directing style and socialist views are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty (''Poor Cow'', 1967), homelessness (''Cathy Come Home'', 1966), and labour rights ('' Riff-Raff'', 1991, and '' The Navigators'', 2001). Loach's film '' Kes'' (1969) was voted the seventh greatest British film of the 20th century in a poll by the British Film Institute. Two of his films, '' The Wind That Shakes the Barley'' (2006) and '' I, Daniel Blake'' (2016), received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, making him one of only ten filmmakers to win the award twice. He also holds the record for the most films screened in the main competition at Cannes with 15. Early life Kenneth Charles Loach was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire on 17 June 1936, the son of Vivien ( ...
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IWA–AIT
The International Workers' Association – (IWA–AIT) is an international federation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions and initiatives. It aims to create unions capable of fighting for the economic and political interests of the working class and eventually, to directly abolish capitalism and the state through "the establishment of economic communities and administrative organs run by the workers." At its peak the International represented millions of people worldwide. Its member unions played a central role in the social conflicts of the 1920s and 1930s. However the International was formed as many countries were entering periods of extreme repression, and many of the largest IWA unions were shattered during that period.Vadim Damier (2009)Anarcho-syndicalism in the 20th Century/ref> Ideology The IWA explicitly rejects centralism, political parties, parliamentarism and statism, including the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as offering the means to c ...
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