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Vivir la utopía. El anarquismo en espana. (Original 1997). Living Utopia (The Anarchists and the Spanish Revolution) Spanish with english subtitles. Around 95 minutes. This documentary-film by Juan Gamero consists of 30 interviews with survivors of the 1936-1939 Spanish Revolution, and is in our view one of the best documentaries dealing with the theme. The testimony of the anarchist militants are very moving indeed, and are showing the constructive work of the social revolution in Spain. This "Anarchy in Action" meant: on the land around 7 million peasants form collectives, in the city 3000 workplaces collectivised, 150 000 join the anarchist militias to fight fascism, as well as cultural activities and the movement of the Mujeres Libres to free the women from patriarchy.

Direct links to the film in spanish with english subtitles:

• via youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIyvEQUJhHc
• via anarchism.org: http://www.anarchism.org/videos/en/Living_Utopia.avi

George Orwell about the Social Revolution in Spain

"Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and freedom. Human beings were trying to behave as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine". from "Homage to Catalonia"

Obituary

• Miguel Alba (1900-1999) Lozano, [1]
• Ramón Álvarez (1913-2003) Palomo [2]
• Federico Arcos (1920- ) Martinez: Relentless Vision: The legacy of F. Arcos, Emma Goldman and the Spanish Revolution(Video)[3] and [4]
• Maria Batet (1914-2009) [5]
• Severino Campos (1905-2006) Campos [6] und [7]
• Francisco Carrasquer (1917-2012), (Video in memoriam) [8]
• Miguel Celma (1920-2007) Martín [9]
• Valerio Chiné (1918-2007) Bagué [10]
• José Fortea (1916- )Gracia [11]
• Juan Giménez (1913-1998) Arenas [12]
• Concha Liaño (1916-2014) [13] und hier: [14], (Video) Anarquista, Mujeres Libres 1936, Interview span. [15]
• Fidel Miró (1910-1998) Last Interview [16]
• Aurora Molina (1923-2014) Iturbe [17] kurzes Video: [18]
• Concha Pérez (1915-2014) Collado [19], Video, Homenatge [20]
• Maria Suceso Portales (1904-1999) [21]
• Dolores Prat (1905-2001) Coll [22]
• José "Pepe" Sauces (1911-2000) [23]
• Liberto Sarrau(1920-2001) Royes [24]
• Antonio Turón (1920-2003) Turón [25]
• José Urzáiz (1918-1998) [26]
• Antonio Zapata (1908-2000) Córdoba [27]

Bibliography

• Sam Dolgoff (1974): The Anarchist Collectives: Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution, 1936–1939, Montreal.
• Rudolf Rocker (1938): Anarcho-Syndicalism. Theory & Practice, London.
• Colectivo Solidario, ed.,(2007): "El anarcosindicalismo español. Una historia en imágenes". Confederación Sindical Solidaridad Obrera, Madrid.
• Jose Peirats (2011,2012): "The CNT in the Spanish Revolution", vol.1, vol.2, vol.3, PM Press, Oakland.
• Stuart Christie (2010): We, the anarchists! A study of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) 1927–1937. London.
• Vernon Richards (1953): Lessons of the Spanish Revolution. Freedom Press, London.
• Iain McKay, Editor (2012): "An Anarchist FAQ" Vol 2, (esp. Section: I.8 Does revolutionary Spain show that libertarian socialism can work in practice? page 974-1005). AK Press, Oakland/Edinburgh.
• "Spain 1936-1939: Social Revolution - Counter Revolution" (1990), (Selections from the anarchist fortnightly 'Spain & the World'), Freedom Press, London.

Websites

• http://raforum.apinc.org/article.php3?id_article=84&lang=es - "Research Forum on Anarchism", short discribtion of the 30 interviews with the old veterans english by Pietro Ferrua).
• http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=276024032&chanel=219646953&lineup=234388931 "Living Utopia - (Vivir la Utopia)" via Anarchist Film Channel/ChristieBooks, brightcove spanish with english subtitels! [The first 20 min. of the film] (and many more historic CNT-FAI videos e.g. from Antonio Ortiz and stuff from Noam Chomsky, about the Wobblies etc.)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGBnAPKN9Oo "Living Utopia", der complete Film in english via youtube.com in 10 parts.
• http://recollectionbooks.com/siml/library/utopia.htm Living Utopia - Vivir la Utopia english-language translation by Paul Sharkey.
• http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2419/spaindx.html Images from the Spanish Revolution of 1936
• http://www.anarchosyndicalism.net ['Anarcho-Syndikalism 101 - Class Struggle online']
• http://www.memorialibertaria.org "La Revolución Libertaria" - Exhibition
• http://deu.anarchopedia.org/Vivir_la_utopía links to the film in spanish, english, french, german, greek.
• http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivir_la_utopia es.wikipedia.org

See also

• Anarchist Film Channel with around 400 films about anarchism by Stuart Christie.