France, Alternative Libertaire AL #249 - Read: The Notebooks
of the Toulouse Centre for Documentation on Spanish exile (fr,
it, pt) [machine translation]
The magazine Les Cahiers du CTDEE is edited by the Toulouse Clearinghouse Spanish exile
organization founded in 2008 by exiled Spanish-es and their descendants. This association
aims to gather and archive all documents entrusted to him related to the activity of the
Spanish political refugees in Toulouse area in 1939. The student's holdings is available
to the public and researchers to allow consultation and study. It is highlighted by
exhibitions and the publication of the Cahiers du CTDEE. ---- To date two issues were
published. The first in July 2014: it contains an important file on the gulag of Karaganda
where were imprisoned by the Stalinist regime 59 Spanish antifascists, sailors or pilots
students stranded in USSR after Franco's victory. The last of them will be released in
1956 after sixteen years of gulags in the homeland of socialism ... The record belies the
lies of the Communist press, French and Spanish in exile, who cynically deny the existence
of the Karaganda camp Spanish and locked there.
Number 2 is released in October 2014 for 70 years of insurrection in Asturias, "another
October Revolution." It includes an article on nueve, the unit of the 2nd Armoured
Division which came first in Paris on the evening of August 24, 1944, episode overshadowed
the history of the liberation of Paris. Indeed the construction of the national novel
badly stuck with the fact whether the Spanish anarchists who helped liberate the capital.
The largest part of this issue is devoted to the insurrection of October 1934 in Asturias.
On 4 October 1934, ministers of the CEDA, a Catholic and reactionary right-wing coalition
led by Gil Robles, enter the Spanish government. On October 5, UGT, PSOE and the working
alliance launched a general strike in protest. In Asturias, the working alliance, which is
here part CNT, unlike the rest of Spain, and the miners' union engage in an armed
insurrection that gets quickly spectacular success. In the rest of the country, the
general strike does take place in large cities, but without clear direction, the movement
fails. The CNT, scalded by a series of unsuccessful insurrections in previous months, did
not call for a strike, for example in Barcelona ... Very quickly, in Asturias, the
victorious insurrection becomes a real social revolution: we speak of " Commune of
Asturias. " Finally, this movement will be crushed in blood, in part by the very people
that will lead the fascist uprising 18 months later ...
Blending history of revolutionary Spain, history of exile and struggles that continue to
lead those who escaped Franco, Les Cahiers du CTDEE are written by people who lived
through those events or their descendants.
Xavier (friend AL)
Les Cahiers du CDTEE, Toulouse, 80 pages, 10 euros.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Lire-Les-Cahiers-du-Centre
