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In this episode we discuss Christopher Hill’s The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution, originally published in 1972.
This book is widely regarded as a seminal work of history from below, which popularised the concept of the English Revolution and helped to establish the ideas of the Levellers, Diggers, Seekers and Ranters as a key part of the radical tradition in England and beyond.
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The image in this episode is a 17th century woodcut depicting a group of Ranters, one of the sects discussed by Hill.
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In this episode we discuss The Fall and Rise of the British Left (Verso, 2019) by Andrew Murray.
We originally intended this episode to coincide with the UK General Election in July 2024, seeing this as a good moment to reflect on the electoral turn of the left in Britain in the 2010s. While this scheduling didn't quite work out, we still felt this work, written by an advisor to Jeremy Corbyn at the peak of expectations for a left-wing Labour victory, would make for an interesting and (somewhat) timely discussion.
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is from the 1985 Labour Party Conference.
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In this episode we discuss M. E. O’Brien and Eman Abdelhadi’s speculative fiction Everythingfor Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072 (Common Notions Press, 2022).
We both really enjoyed this slight departure from our usual reading choices for the podcast, which provoked and stimulated how we think about history, and the experience and nature of post-revolutionary society.
You can find interviews authors of this book here:
https://positionspolitics.org/an-interview-with-m-e-obrien/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6lSfPYDDsyuvRNB3DgvcIx?si=1T076vlXTC6hVfOfTrq6mQ
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
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The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me meteum nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is some of the cover art for Everything for Everyone.
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In this episode we are delighted to be joined by Dr Alexandra Paulin-Booth, to discuss her book Time and Radical Politics in France, published by ManchesterUniversity Press in 2023. Alex’s work treats the conception of time as both a window and a key into the left and right in France, during the turbulent period between the Dreyfuss Affair and the First WorldWar.
You can see Alex’s profile and a list of her publications here.
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put yourpostal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is the cover of an issue of La voix du peuple in 1905, which is used on the front cover of Alex’s book.
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In this episode we speak to our longtime friend and comrade Jessica Thorne about her work on anarchist prisoners under the Franco regime in Spain.
Jess has recently completed a PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London on this subject, which is also discussed in an article recently published in European History Quarterly, available here.
See also Jess's brilliant article on football and radical politics in Franco's prisons, available via History Workshop here.
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a photograph of Carabanchel prison in Madrid, which we discuss during the episode.
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In this episode we were delighted to be joined by Ronald Grigor Suny, one of the most distinguished scholars of the Russian Revolution in the world.
Suny has written extensively on a huge range of topics, including nationalism within the Russian and Soviet empires, the Armenian genocide and, in 2020, a monumental biography of the young Joseph Stalin, which was the starting point of our conversation.
A fuller sense of Suny's vast historical work can be found here: https://lsa.umich.edu/history/people/emeritus/rgsuny.html and here: https://political-science.uchicago.edu/directory/Ronald-Suny
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & Rafael Dionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is the front cover of Suny's Stalin: Passage to Revolution (Princeton University Press, 2020).
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In this episode we discuss Sho Konishi's brilliant Anarchist Modernity: Cooperatism and Japanese-Russian Intellectual Relations in Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 2013).
This book has been on our radar for a long time, and it was a pleasure to spend some time discussing Konishi's framing of anarchism as an alternative vision of modernity, as exemplified in the exchanges between radical thinkers and activists in Japan and Russia from 1880 to 1920.
You can read an extended interview with Konishi here: asiaarttours.com/anarchist-modernity-dr-sho-konishi-of-oxford-on-japan-russia-and-anarchism-part-1/
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The first ABC Edition Pamphlet, Danny's translation of Víctor García: ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography,’ is now available to buy for cost price of £2 + postage.
For UK listeners, the easiest way to place a single order is to send £3.35 via PayPal to [email protected], and put your postal address in the comments. For larger or international orders, please email [email protected], and we will arrange in conversation.
You can keep in touch with the podcast via the above email, and Twitter @abcdannyandjim.
You can subscribe to our newsletter here: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a picture taken from the periodical Heimin Shimbun, the publication of the Nonwar Movement in Japan during the Russo-Japanese War, which included several leading anarchists in its editorial.
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In this episode we discuss our first ever ABC Edition pamphlet: a translation of Víctor García's ‘José Xena Torrent: A Contribution to a Necessary Biography’.
Danny has taken the lead on this project, and introduces us to García (the pen-name of Germinal Gracia), his relationship with Xena, and the experiences of both through the Spanish Civil War and exile in Venezuela.
The pamphlet is available at cost price of £2.00, plus and postage costs. Email [email protected] to discuss placing an order.
Big thanks to Footprint Workers Co-Op in Leeds for the printing of this lovely edition. Check them out at: footprinters.co.uk
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a photograph of Germinal Gracia (Víctor García) and José Xena from their time in exile, c.1960. This photograph features in the pamphlet, and was generously supplied by José Xena's daughter Nerida Xena Puig.
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After a few months off, ABC returns with a brilliant guest, Zoe Baker (@anarchopac) author of Means and Ends published with AK Press in 2023: https://www.akpress.org/means-and-ends.html.
Zoe's book provides an engaging and accessible overview of the revolutionary strategy of anarchism in Europe and the United States between 1868 and 1939.
Zoe is host of one of the most popular and respected YouTube channels on the left, which you can find here: tinyurl.com/anarcho-pac
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is the cover art of Zoe's book.
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In this episode we discuss 'Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain,' a reprint of Jim's book published by AK Press in September 2022. This conversation is a natural follow up from Jim's appearance on the excellent podcast 'Coffee with Comrades,' which you can listen to here: https://coffeewithcomrades.com/episode-178-tierra-y-libertad-ft-jim-yeoman/
Listeners in the US can buy the paperback from AK Press here: https://www.akpress.org/print-culture.html. The book will be available in the UK, from your local radical bookseller, from Spring 2023.
Jim will be doing a few public events in the UK in early 2023, in Manchester, Leeds and Sheffield. Keep an eye on our Twitter page, @abcdannyandjim, where we will post details when they are confirmed. Listeners in other parts of the UK are very welcome to suggest other locations/events to our email, [email protected].
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv.
The image in this episode is a box full of copies of Jim's book, with cover art designed by Isidro Pergamino, who you can find on Instagram under Ave Cosmica Prints: instagram.com/ave_cosmica_prints/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D
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In this episode we are joined by Michael Richmond and Alex Charnley to discuss their new work 'Fractured: Race, Class, Gender and the Hatred of Identity Politics,' published with Pluto Press. You can order the book online here: https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745346588/fractured/
A lively and fun conversation, covering the possibilities of universalist approaches, the value of using 'revolutionary time' as an analytical concept, and the paucity of arguments from both right and left which tell us to ignore the material realities of identity.
You can access the archives of Michael and Alex's previous work for The Occupied Times here: https://theoccupiedtimes.org/ and Base Publication here: http://www.basepublication.org/
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is a photograph of the The Combahee River Collective.
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We begin this episode with a statement read by Danny from Ryan Roberts, one of the Bristol Kill the Bill protesters, who has been sentenced to 14 years in prison. If you would like to learn more about this situation and how you can help, see the following accounts on Twitter:
Bristol Anarchist Red and Black Cross: @Bristol_ABC
Bristol Defendant Solidarity: @BristolDefenda1
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In this episode we speak with Sophie Turbutt and Josh Newmark, both of whom are undertaking PhDs at the University of Leeds. We begin by speaking about a conference that Sophie and Josh organised in the summer of 2022, titled 'Anarchism in the Iberian Peninsula Symposium,' which was attended by Danny. You can read reflections on this event from both our guests here: pastandpresent.org.uk/reflecting-on-the-anarchism-in-the-iberian-peninsula-pgr-ecr-symposium/
Our discussion then moves on to speak about recent articles that Sophie and Josh have published. Firstly, Josh's article on anarchist internationalism and solidarity during the Mexican Revolution, which you can read Open Access here: journal.wrocah.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/WRoCAH-journal-issue-6-spring-1.pdf
We then speak with Sophie about her article on the anarchist sexual revolution and gender politics, which she examines through the advice columns of the journal La Revista Blanca, available Open Access here: cambridge.org/core/journals/contemporary-european-history/article/sexual-revolution-and-the-spanish-anarchist-press-bodies-birth-control-and-free-love-in-the-1930s-advice-columns-of-la-revista-blanca/D3A34E5C5157F4966BEE1A9ED08A3752
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
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In this episode we are joined by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez of Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal. Arturo's work focuses on the transnational and comparative history of revolutions and radical ideas, with special focus on Russia and the Hispanic world. Our discussion focuses on Arturo's studies on the impact of the Russian revolution of 1917 on anarchist movements around the world, with a particular emphasis on the CNT in Spain, which can be found in the publications Revolutionary Russia and the European History Quarterly. A more comprehensive bibliography of Arturo's work can be found here: https://fcsh-pt.academia.edu/ArturoZoffmannRodriguez
This was a fascinating and lively chat with an exciting young scholar, which we both thoroughly enjoyed. Arturo is currently transforming his PhD thesis, which centres on the subjects we cover in this episode, into a book and we look forward to seeing this come out in the near future.
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is a Spanish campesino brandishing a hammer and sickle, taken in Aragon in the early stages of the Spanish Civil War in 1936.
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This episode provides an overview of the biographical essay on the Spanish anarchist activist Juan Santana Calero (1914-1939) contained in Miquel Amorós, Los incontrolados de 1937. Memorias militantes de los amigos de Durruti (Aldarull, 2014).
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In this episode we discuss Eric Hobsbawm's classic - and much-criticised - study of social banditry, millenarian insurrection and mob politics, 'Primitive Rebels' (1959).
This key text remains a touchstone for discussions of anarchism, and is often the first port of call for English speakers interested in the Spanish movement. We reflect on Hobsbawm's approach, its strengths and shortcomings, and how the book resonates with contemporary political analysis.
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is an illustration of Davide Lazzaretti, leader of a mid-19th century 'millenarian' movement which is one of Hobsbawm's subjects.
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This episode is something a little different, a recording of a live event we held with in Liverpool in December 2021 with Joe Glenton (@joejglenton), discussing his recent book Veteranhood: Rage and Hope in British Ex-Military Life, published by Repeater. You can buy the book directly from Repeater here: https://repeaterbooks.com/product/veteranhood-rage-and-hope-in-british-ex-military-life/
Veteranhood is a fantastic book; poignant, witty and angry, as well as highly readable. We wanted this event to be as open as possible, with a couple of readings from Joe and questions from ourselves, but mainly letting the conversation run through the audience.
As a live event, some of the sound quality isn’t great throughout, but we hope you find it as interesting and as fun as we did at the time….
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is the cover art of Joe’s Book, designed by Johnny Bull
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In this episode we were joined by Max Farrar to discuss his forthcoming biography, 'Arthur France MBE: The Life and Times of an African-Caribbean-British Man' (Hansib 2021). Arthur France was born in the tiny Caribbean island of Nevis, where he began his activism in trade unionism and black power. After moving to Leeds in 1964 he became a key figure in the emerging black radical cultural movements in the UK through the 1960s and 70s, most notably in his work founding Leeds Carnival.
This was a fascinating, wide-ranging and fun conversation with Max. You can find more of Max's writings, over a lifetime of activism and reflection, at https://www.maxfarrar.org.uk/
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is a photograph of the early pioneers of Leeds Carnival, with Arthur France in the centre.
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This episode is something of a special, a recording of our first ever ‘live’ event, which was held on Friday 8 October on Zoom. We were delighted to be joined by Mike Finn and Dana Mills, to mark the recent publication of Mike’s book ‘Debating Anarchism’ (Bloomsbury 2021).
Mike’s book is a brilliant, provocative introduction to the debates which surround anarchist history and theory, so we felt this would be a good opportunity to explore some of these with Mike himself, and Dana, an activist and author of – amongst many other works – a brilliant biography of Rosa Luxembourg, published in 2020 with Reaktion Books. Towards the end of the conversation we opened up for some audience questions.
If you're interested in buying 'Debating Anarchism,' you can get 35% off paperback and e-book editions when buying from the Bloomsbury website, using the following codes:
UK: GLR TW9UK
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You can subscribe to our newsletter here at abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com. The latest post, Revolution number Ja Danke, by Danny, explores the 1969 Summer of Soul and ‘the Black Woodstock’ and is well worth a read.
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is a screenshot of Mike, Dana, Danny and Me, having a lovely time on a Friday evening.
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In this episode we discuss A.M. Gittlitz's 'I Want to Believe' (Pluto Press, 2020), a study of the remarkable development of a branch of Cold War Trotskyism under the direction of the Argentine J. Posadas.
Gittlitz combines an astute reading of the Posadist movement with humour and pathos, bringing together stories of nuclear apocalypse, 'coffee shop wankers' and armed guerrilla struggles in Latin America, resonating with present struggles around migration, science fiction, Bogdanov's dispute with Lenin, Carl Sagan, the arrival of the conquistadors in South America, memes, the Argentinian worker's movement and the X-files. Stay tuned for Jim's revelation about dolphins at the end of this conversation....
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The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Club logo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv
The image in this episode is an ironic pin-badge, playing on the classic Danish anti-nuclear symbol The Smiling Sun, to fit with Posadism's adherence to nuclear apocalypse, Ufology and the position of dolphins in the revolutionary struggle.
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A short overview of the book Joan Puig Elías. Anarquismo, pedagogía y coherencia by Valeria Giacomoni (Barcelona: Descontrol, 2016), a biography of the anarchist teacher and leading light of the Escuela Natura who presided over the Consejo de la Escuela Nueva Unificada (CENU) during the Spanish civil war.
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