In March of 1937 a new offensive on Madrid was initiated by the Italian fascists. They based the attack in Guadalajara, about 25 miles from the Capital. This time the fascists confronted the 14th division, along with other shock troops of the Republic. Cipriano Mera was the CNT commander of the central forces. A great organizer, disdainful of the military `experts' & wise to the tricks of the Communists, he announced that his troops would decide the moment of attack. He wanted to avoid another carnage like Jarama.
When Mera saw the Russian tanks advancing & Lister & El Campesino launching their attacks, the anarchists in an irresistible charge, terrorized the Italians.
THE POLITICS OF BETRAYAL: Part Two of Life in Revolutionary Barcelona By Manolo Gonzalez, Anarchy: a journal of desire armed. #36, Spring 1993 http://www.spunk.org/library/pubs/ajoda/36/sp001378.txt
LIBERTARIAN COMMUNISM by Isaac Puente
First published by the CNT in Spanish as a widely distributed pamphlet in 1932, with many subsequent editions. - The first english translation appeared in 'The Cienfuegos Press Anarchist Review' #6 Orkney 1982.
In December 1933, Puente, Cipriano Mera & Durruti constituted the committee that organised the uprising in Aragon. A comrade who took part, Miguel Foz, has described events succinctly... http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/libcom.html
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