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Over the Summer months, the Fantin Reading Group will be tackling Chris Ealham’s Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937 (2010, AK Press). It has been described by Barry Pateman as “the finest study of working-class anarchist life and culture since Paul Avrich’s The Haymarket Tragedy [… and] comes closer than any other English-language work in understanding what anarchism and its practice meant to Spanish working class people at the time.”
The Fantin Reading Group will be discussing a chapter each fortnight as follows:
Ch.1 The making of a divided city (Nov 17, 2pm)
Ch.2 Mapping the working-class city (Dec 1, 2pm)
Ch.3 The birth of a republican city (Dec 15, 2pm)
«New Year Break»
Ch.4 The proletarian city and the Second Republic (Jan 12, 2pm)
Ch.5 The struggle to survive (Jan 26, 2pm)
Ch.6 Militarised anarchism (Feb 2, 2pm)
Ch.7 Cultural battles: class and criminality (Feb 16, 2pm)
Ch.8 An ‘apolitical’ revolution (Mar 2, 2pm)
Copies may be found on sale at the MAC Info-shop, or ordered directly from AK Press . Alternatively, online and eBook versions of the 2005 Routledge impress of the same work (published under the title Class, culture and conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 ) may accessed at lib.com by following the link provided.
All welcome.