This is a collection of replies to propertarians from the late 1990s about the Spanish Revolution. They are mostly debunking claims and exposing lies. They have been combined into one page and any links updated or removed, otherwise they are the same.
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Objectivity and Right-Libertarian Scholarship
A reply and critique of a propertarian attack on Spanish Anarchism written in the late 1990s. Somewhat better at hiding its ideologically driven nature behind an apparently more serious and scholarly approach.
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Remembering Mother Earth
An article marking the launch of Mother Earth in March 1906, debunking some of the myths which have been spread about it and its politics. It includes comments on the paper’s “Observations and Comments” section which show its communist-anarchist orientation clearly. It appeared in Black Flag Anarchist Review (Spring 2026)
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Review: Romancing the revolution
A review of an interesting book on the reaction to the Russian Revolution within the British left at the time. It shows how many on the left went from supporting the revolution due to its increase in democracy to defeating the Bolshevik dictatorship in a few years. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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Review: The Bolsheviks in Power
Review of a 2007 book on the first year of Bolshevik power. Documents the Bolshevik assault on soviet democracy and the opposition. It appeared in Black Flag
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