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Notas sobre el refugio libertario español en la región chilena (1939-1993)

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Notas sobre el refugio libertario español en la región chilena (1939-1993)

 

Como es relativamente conocido, tras la victoria franquista en la península, en 1939 el frente-populista gobierno de Chile implementó un barco (el Winnipeg) para traer refugiados españoles desde las costas francesas. Uno de los principales gestores y administradores de la iniciativa fue el poeta Pablo Neruda. Según los informes sobre el SERE (Servicio de Evacuación de Republicanos españoles) emitidos desde la CNT de España a los libertarios chilenos, los cupos del barco debían distribuirse de forma proporcional para todas las agrupaciones políticas y sindicales del bando antifascista, pero Neruda, en complicidad con el Partido Comunista (en el que militaba) marginó al 86% de los nombres sugeridos por los anarcosindicalistas.
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Diario de un pistolero anarquista – Miquel Mir

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La investigación y la fortuna me llevaron al encuentro de Mauricio B., un apacible anciano que compartió conmigo sus turbulentas vivencias de juventud como ayudante de las patrullas de la FAI.
En un contexto de creciente tensión política vivió los años de infancia y adolescencia trabajando de aprendiz en el taller mecánico de su padrino José S. Desde el levantamiento militar de julio del 1936, hasta el verano de 1937, y con catorce años, Mauricio fue compañero de su padrino en las acciones de los patrulleros anarquistas.

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Pages from Italian Anarchist History

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Pages from Italian Anarchist History:
The anarchism of the Cervi Brothers by Andrea Ferrari
Italian anarchist volunteers in Barcelona and the events of May 1937 by Aldo Aguzzi

Published by The Kate Sharpley Library

19 Pages – English

Original Publication Date: Cervi Brothers, 1980 ; Italian anarchist volunteers, 1938.
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Remembering Spain : Italian anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

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Umberto Marzocchi

 

Umberto Marzocchi

He was born in Florence on 10 October 1900. A shipyard worker in La Spezia, he became an anarchist at a very early age and by 1917 was secretary of the metalworkers’ union affiliated to the USI (Italian Syndicalist Union), thanks to his youth which precluded his being mobilised for front-line service as a reprisal. During the “Red Biennium” he took part in the struggles alongside the renowned La Spezia anarchist, Pasquale Binazzi, the director of Il Libertario newspaper. In 1920 he was part of a gang of anarchists that attacked the La Spezia arsenal, overpowering the security guards and carrying off two machine guns and several rifles, in the, alas disappointed, hope of triggering a revolutionary uprising in the city. In 1921, visiting Rome to reach an agreement with Argo Secondari, he took over as organiser of the Arditi del Popolo (People’s Commandos) in the region; this organisation was to give good account of itself during the “Sarzana incidents”. Moving to Savona, he organised the meeting between Malatesta and the pro-Bolshevik Russian anarchist Sandomirsky who arrived in Rapallo in the wake of the Chicherin delegation as its Press Officer. By 1922, wanted by the fascists, he left the country, playing an active part in the activities of the anarchist exiles in France and Belgium.

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Remembering Spain : Italian anarchist Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War

Umberto Marzocchi

He was born in Florence on 10 October 1900. A shipyard worker in La Spezia, he became an anarchist at a very early age and by 1917 was secretary of the metalworkers’ union affiliated to the USI (Italian Syndicalist Union), thanks to his youth which precluded his being mobilised for front-line service as a reprisal. During the “Red Biennium” he took part in the struggles alongside the renowned La Spezia anarchist, Pasquale Binazzi, the director of Il Libertario newspaper. In 1920 he was part of a gang of anarchists that attacked the La Spezia arsenal, overpowering the security guards and carrying off two machine guns and several rifles, in the, alas disappointed, hope of triggering a revolutionary uprising in the city. In 1921, visiting Rome to reach an agreement with Argo Secondari, he took over as organiser of the Arditi del Popolo (People’s Commandos) in the region; this organisation was to give good account of itself during the “Sarzana incidents”. Moving to Savona, he organised the meeting between Malatesta and the pro-Bolshevik Russian anarchist Sandomirsky who arrived in Rapallo in the wake of the Chicherin delegation as its Press Officer. By 1922, wanted by the fascists, he left the country, playing an active part in the activities of the anarchist exiles in France and Belgium.

In 1936 he was in Spain with the Italian Column and there took part in the battle of Almudevar. After Camillo Berneri was murdered, he returned to France where he handled aid to Spanish refugees. After the Nazi occupation, he joined the Maquis in the Pyrenees, part of a mixed unit made up of anarchists, socialists and French and Spanish communists (Group 31, Area 5). In 1945 after the Liberation he returned to Italy where he became one of the most active publicists, speakers and lecturers of the newly formed Italian Anarchist Federation (FAI), which at that time was an umbrella for the whole of the Italian anarchist movement. In 1971 he was appointed secretary of the International of Anarchist Federations’ Liaison Committee, a post he filled for 12 years. In 1977, by then almost eighty, he was arrested in Spain during an international anarchist gathering. He died in Savona on 4 June 1986.

What follows is taken from a long video-taped interview that Paolo Gobetti from the Turin-based National Film Archive of the Resistance made with Ugo during the ‘70s.

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El Mensaje Revolucionario de “Los Amigos de Durruti”

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Translated from The revolutionary message of the ‘Friends of Durruti’ by José and Lorenzo for Congreso de Unificación Anarco-Comunista [Chile]

Prefacio a la primera edición (1983), por Daniel Guèrin.

El estudio de George Fontenis me parece ser una contribución útil, e iré más lejos aún, me parece valioso no sólo para una mejor comprensión de la Revolución Española entre 1936-7, sino también para una más extensa interpretación de la noción misma del comunismo libertario.
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