At work on the next bulletin. Should be a double issue, but there still may not be room for the "Short history of the 'Star of Peru' Bakery Workers' Federation (FOPEP)" But it's online at:
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/v41qc1
"In 1905 Manuel González Prada issued an appeal to all of Lima’s workers and craftsmen to mount the very first May Day celebration in the country:
“The 1st of May is designed to represent for humanity what 25 December represents for Christians; a day of joyful celebration, hope, regeneration … on this day revolutionaries hail the Future and the coming advent of an era when the liberation of all the oppressed and brotherhood between all races become realities .. everyone is called upon to marshal under the folds of the red flag” (
La fiesta universal, 1905)"
On a more serious note, after the death of Salvador Gurucharri of Defensa Interior* in June (tribute from Octavio Alberola at:
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/9cnqbn); Antonio Martín Bellido of the DI has also just died (tribute from Stuart Christie at:
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/jq2d6w)
*(DI:"whose remit was (a) to organise and coordinate actions intended to destabilise and discredit the Franco regime internally and internationally, and (b) to assassinate General Franco.")
Via Stuart's website
http://www.christiebooks.com/ChristieBooksWP/ also comes an "Interview with Agustín Guillamón, historian of the working class revolution in Barcelona in 1936"
http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/6djjcs
Too long for the bulletin, but it does cover AG's personal history, as well as his views on "the fight for history":
"Then there was the forcible baptism of my aunts at the hands of some Falangist “ladies”. My aunt Natura was rechristened with the name Ana, although she was always known just as Nita. My aunt Libertad was rechristened Cruz, albeit that she was still referred to by everyone as Nati, so that when she wanted to get married years later, the priest turned her away because the names Natividad and Cruz and Libertad did not match up. In the end the priest gave in because the only alternative was for the couple to live together “in sin”."
