Historia de Barcelona

Mes: septiembre 1936

  • Anarquía en Barcelona

    Bolshevism is one thing and Anarchism is another. Last week Walter Duranty, No. 1 contemporary reporter on Bolshevism, had left Moscow to report in Barcelona upon Anarchism—the most interesting principle of Government to arise amid the civil war in Spain.

    Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia, a Spanish district so strongly Separatist that four years ago it won from Madrid a partial independence recently made complete (TIME, Aug. 31). Last week there was a chance that the Catalonian Communists may get the upper hand and establish a Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Likewise there was a chance that momentarily powerless Luis Companys, the Left Republican President of Catalonia, may regain control. But for the time being Barcelona was in the hands of Anarchists and its interesting condition could therefore be described as Anarchy.

  • Comer con el POUM

    When we enrolled in the P.O.U.M. militia in September, 1936, the Supply Committee fed us. We lived gratis at the P.O.U.M.-confiscated Hotel Falcón … Every day trucks brought huge rounds of bread to the manager’s office, to be stacked next to 100-kilo bags of potatoes and big wicker-covered bottles of Catalan red wine. The P.O.U.M. gave free meals to the wives and children of its militiamen at the front, to militia on leave in Barcelona, and those who worked in the rear as we did. The food was plain but good, soup, a stew or meat dish, salad, bread, and wine.