The Fact Beh

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"The Madrid proletariat was mobilising. The left socialists distributed their scant store of arms, saved from Oct 1934. Barricades went up on key streets 'and around the Montana barracks. Workers' groups were looking for react leaders. At dawn of the 19th the first militia patrols took their places. At midnight the first shots were exchanged barracks. But it was not until the next day, when the great news came from Barcelona, that the Barracks were stor "No government in the world fights fascism to the death. When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself.

The liberal government of Spain could have rendered the fascist elements powerless long ago. Instead it temporised and compromised and dallied ... We know what we want. To us it means nothing that there is a Soviet Union somewhere in the world, for the sake of whose peace and tranquillity the workers of Germany and China were sacrificed to fascist barbarism by Stalin. We want the revolution here in Spain, right now, not maybe after the next European max. We are giving Hitler and Mussolini far more worry today with our revolution than the whole Red dits o* Russia. We are setting an example to the Ge mar as maiar mortis sas so = tea er= =-35S irom ine Trotskyist writer Felix "Ferdacion and Counter-Revolution in "Catalonia has shown what prodigious tasks of production the proletariat will undertake once it is in control of the factories. Yet the workers' committees in Madrid which at first took over the public utilities and many big plants were thereafter subordinated