This film directed by juan gamero shows us the context the anarchist movement in spain was inserted in, its development and crash. during its development, initiatives in all domains have arisen: public assemblies and politics taken over by non hierarchical models, local farming, produce exchange, local currencies and coupons systems, free schools, etc. The bureaucratization of the movement to integrate the system they worked against or parallel to was heavily criticized by many of its supporters and activists, in addition to that, the militarization as a survival mechanism when the movement became threatened by the communists and then the fascists totaled it. the prosperous autonomous systems were gone in a snap.
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