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Revolutionary Catalonia
Catalunya revolucionària(Catalan)
1936–1937
Above: CNT-FAI flag Below: Flag of Catalonia
Seal of the Generalitat
Territorial division of Catalonia according to the decree of the Generalitat of October 1936
Status
De facto: Quasi-state with stateless features De jure: Autonomous territory within a constitutional republic
Capital
Barcelona
Common languages
Catalan, Spanish
Government
De facto: Anarcho-syndicalism De jure: Generalitat of Catalonia
President of the Generalitat
• 1936-1939
Lluís Companys
Legislature
Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia (1936) Parliament of Catalonia (1936–1939)
Historical era
Spanish Civil War
• Established
21 July 1936
• CCMA disbanded
1 October 1936
• May Days
3–8 May 1937
• Fall of Catalonia
10 February 1939
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Second Spanish Republic
Generalitat of Catalonia
Second Spanish Republic
Generalitat of Catalonia
Today part of
Spain ∟Catalonia
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Prehistory
Iberians
c. 6th BC – c. 1st BC
Greek colonies
c. 6th BC – c. 1st BC
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218 BC – 19 BC
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27 BC – 476 AD
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Visigoths
5th century – c.720
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713–1154
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c.760 – 12th century
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801–1162
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1162–1715
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c. 12th century – 1714
Compromise of Caspe
1412
War of the Remences
1462–1486
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1462–1472
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1469–1516
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1516–1700
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1640–1659
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1659
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1687–1689
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1700–1715
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1713–1714
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1716
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1808–1814
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1833–1876
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1833–1892
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1870s–
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1909
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1914–1925
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1919
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1931
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1932–1939
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1934
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1936–1939
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1992
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Revolutionary Catalonia[1] (21 July 1936 – 8 May 1937) was the period in which the autonomous region of Catalonia in northeast Spain was controlled or largely influenced by various anarchist, communist, and socialist trade unions, parties, and militias of the Spanish Civil War era. Although the constitutional Catalan institution of self-government, the Generalitat of Catalonia, remained in power and even took control of most of the competences of the Spanish central government in its territory, the trade unions were de facto in command of most of the economy and military forces, which includes the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, National Confederation of Labor) which was the dominant labor union at the time and the closely associated Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI, Iberian Anarchist Federation). The Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, General Worker's Union), the POUM (Workers' Party of Marxist Unification) and the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC, which included the Communist Party of Catalonia) were also prominent.
Socialist rule of the region began with the Spanish Revolution of 1936, resulting in workers' control of businesses and factories, collective farming in the countryside, and attacks against Spanish nationalists and the Catholic clergy. The growing influence of the Communist Party of Spain's (PCE) Popular Front government and their desire to nationalize revolutionary committees and militias brought it into conflict with the CNT and POUM, resulting in the May Days and the eventual replacement of the CNT by the PSUC as the major political force in Catalonia until their defeat to the Nationalist forces in 1939.
The governance of Catalonia was deeply rooted in the ideas of anarcho-syndicalism and anarcho-communism[citation needed]. Both of these ideologies draw heavily on the ideas of Peter Kropotkin and his book The Conquest of Bread, which lays out a future where the workers form trade unions and take over the management of industry so that companies and businesses are directly controlled by the workers.
^Alexander 1999, p. 754; Graham 2002, p. 221; Paz 2006, p. 512.
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