workingclasshistory: On this day, 17 July 1936, a Spanish military uprising began in Morocco as righ
workingclasshistory: On this day, 17 July 1936, a Spanish military uprising began in Morocco as right wing generals declared war on the new Republican government. In Barcelona workers began to respond as members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo union seized 200 rifles from the holds of two ships docked in the harbour and distributed them to union activists. These events marked the beginning of the Spanish civil war. In the coming days,full-scale social revolution would break out which would set the Spanish working class, and volunteers from across the world, against the combined might of the bulk of the Spanish military backed up by Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. Our podcast episodes 39-40 give an overview of the conflict: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/06/17/e39-the-spanish-civil-war-an-introduction/ Pictured: revolutionary militia fighters in Spain during the war https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1762822233902919/?type=3 -- source link