(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Read: Jaime
Balius, 'Towards a new revolution' (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
Poppy editions, based in Toulouse, translate and publish in French of Spanish
anarcho-syndicalists texts, or other countries, such as Sweden or Lätt Nils André and Dori
Prudhommeaux French, who participated in the Spanish revolution of 1936. ---- Jaime Balius
was born in Barcelona in 1904 and died in France in 1980. After going through the Catalan
nationalism in his youth and a short passage Workers and Peasants Bloc, he became a member
of the Iberian Anarchist Federation in 1932 and CNT in 1936. After July 1936 he was
elected vice president of the journalists' union. He is, after the May Days 1937 in
Barcelona, one of the leaders of the Friends of Durruti group created in March 1937 by
members of the Durruti column to oppose the reformist trend and the Spanish government
participation CNT. It will be also excluded from the CNT-FAI and the Friends of Durruti,
following his catch of anti-government positions during the days of May. The leadership of
the CNT calling the workers to stop fighting against the anti-revolutionary forces, the
Stalinists and the government. After the May days, the seat of the Group of Friends of
Durruti is closed by government police and Balius was briefly imprisoned.
Towards a new revolution , written in 1938 by Balius, is a hitherto unpublished text in
its entirety in French. It is published with a preface by the author 1978. Schedules are
two items of Jaime Balius published in exile in September 1939 in the journal The New
Spain André Prudhommeaux an article Louis Mercier Vega and the same newspaper a "Homage to
Pablo Ruiz to Jaime Balius" published in 1981 in Combat Unionist-Solidaridad Obrera. Pablo
Ruiz is a founder Jaime Balius the Group of Friends of Durruti.
According to Balius, CNT failed twice to his revolutionary duty by refusing to take power.
A first time since July 36 by agreeing to share power with the bourgeoisie as part of an
anti-fascist alliance that will soon fight social revolution. And again in May 1937 in
Barcelona, during the days of May the CNT workers calling for calm allowed that "winners
go to the vanquished" and prevented the workers' militias to take power. These events mark
the beginning of the final collapse of the social revolution by the bourgeoisie and the
Stalinists they have free hands afterwards to persecute Poum and anarchist.
Xavier (friend AL)
Jaime Balius, Towards a new revolution , the Group of Friends of Durruti, The Poppy
notebooks No. 6, The Poppy, 2014, 89 pages, 10 euros.
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