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Barcelona May Days
3-8 May 1937
The whole tragedy of the Spanish revolution was given its most graphic expression in that week.
— Miriam Gould, 1943
Documents
Executive Cttee of the POUM and Executive Cttee of JIC Manifesto of the POUM During the Barcelona May Days, May 4, 1937
Central Cttee of the POUM The May Days in Barcelona, May 12, 1937
Enlarged Central Cttee of the POUM Resolution, May 12, 1937
International Secretariat of Press and Propaganda, POUM Statement, June 17, 1937
National Cttee of the CNT Manifesto regarding the May Days in Barcelona, June 1937
Eyewitnesses' accounts
Jane H. Patrick and Ethel Macdonald News from Spain, May 5-9, 1937
Hugo Oehler
The Armed Insurrection of May 3-7 in Barcelona, May 8, 1937
Barricades in Barcelona, May 15, 1937
Augustin Souchy The Tragic Week in May (extracts), 1937
George Orwell Ch. X and XI from Homage to Catalonia 1938
Accounts by contemporaries
The Spanish Revolution (POUM)
The Barricades of May 3-7, May 19, 1937
Another Provocation, May 19, 1937
"Mundo Obrero" against Marx and Lenin, May 19, 1937
Fools or Knaves: False "News Chronicle" and "Daily Worker" version of Barcelona Fighting, May 19, 1937
Spanish Revolution (Anarchist)
Anarchists in Barcelona Still Hold Positions Intact, May 21, 1937
Fighting in Barcelona Provoked by Communist and Republican Politicians, May 21, 1937
Who is Responsible for the Fighting in Barcelona?, June 4, 1937
Attempted Coup Thwarted by Heroic Resistance of Barcelona Workers, June 4, 1937
Famous Anarchist Thinker Assassinated by Barcelona Chekists, June 4, 1937
International Conspiracy Exposed, interview with D. A. de Santillan, May 13, 1937
C.N.T. Brands Reactionary Role of Communist Party, Statement by the National Cttee of the C.N.T., May 25, 1937
The Tragic Days in Barcelona, June 18, 1937
Who Plotted the Uprising in Barcelona, July 19, 1937
Lambda The Truth about the Barcelona Events, May 19, 1937
Wolfe Declares Valencia Cabinet Provoked Uprising, Workers Age, May 29, 1937
Andre Marty The Barcelona putsch, from The War of Independence of the Spanish People, July 1937
CNT Truth About Barcelona's May Days, Socialist Appeal, August 21, 1937
Fenner Brockway The Truth About Barcelona, 1937
William Krehm Barricades in Barcelona from Spain: Revolution and Counterrevolution, 1937
Felix Morrow The May Days: Barricades in Barcelona from Revolution and Counter Revolution in Spain, 1938
Paul Mattick
Civil War in Catalonia, June 1937
"The Barricades Must Be Torn Down." Moscow-Fascism in Spain, August 1937
Leon Trotsky The Lessons of Spain: The Last Warning, December 1937
Albert Weisbord
The Provocations of Bourgeois Democracy in Spain
Barricades in Barcelona
Analysis of the Days of May 4-7 Inclusive in Barcelona
Georges Soria The May Putsch in Barcelona from Trotskyism in the Service of Franco, 1938
Mieczyslaw Bortenstein (M. Casanova) The Events of May 1937 from Spain Betrayed: How the Popular Front Opened the Gates to Franco, 1939
Subsequent accounts and analyses
Miriam Gould Lessons of the Spanish Commune: On the Anniversary of the Barcelona Uprising, 1943
Pierre Broué
The Barcelona May Days from The Revolution and the Civil War in Spain, 1961
The 'May Days' of 1937 in Barcelona, 1988
Ernest Rogers Preface to Barricades in Barcelona by Hugo Oehler, 1988
Tony Cliff The May events, from Trotsky, vol. 4, 1993
Geoff Bailey Barcelona: The anarchist betrayal from Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, 2002
Andy Durgan The May Days from Marxism, War and Revolution: Trotsky and the POUM, 2006