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Organizer of the Iron Column, the Valencian Anarchist Militia Unit, Social Revolutionary, and Anti-Francoist Soldier
: He helped to set up the Valencian anarchist militia unit, the Iron Column, to unleash social revolution against the military and fascist revolt of July 1936 which began the Spanish Civil War. The Iron Column was the most intransigent and most maligned of the anarchist militias. Manzanera served on its War Committee and here remembers both its achievements, and his comrades who fell fighting, not only against fascism, but for anarchy. (From: TheKateSharpleyLibrary.net.)
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Quote #6 on Political Struggle Quotes >> Anarchism and Martyrdom
“Ah, battle-scarred column of liberation: I remember you and my heart is racked with pain at the knowledge that your finest militants, those who most readily did their freely accepted duty, perished, mown down by machine-gun fire, blown to pieces by shells, always with a smile playing upon their lips....”
Source: "The Iron Colum: Testament of a Revolutionary," by Elias Manzanera, translated by Paul Sharkey, Kate Sharpley Library, 2006. Section 5: The Make-Up of the Column, Page 10.
"The Iron Colum: Testament of a Revolutionary," by Elias Manzanera, translated by Paul Sharkey, Kate Sharpley Library, 2006.
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