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matter. But what actually precipitated the and twos. the Barcelona Telephone Exchange, which led to the May fighting, was one was so wrecked by shell-fire that you could not move about in it without a again, except for my tiny automatic pistol, for which I had only one clip of Barcelona in May, it was mainly from an instinct to stand by the C.N.T., and They could be cleaned, but it is dangerous to take the bolt out of a rifle in Barcelona then, or for months later, will forget the horrible atmosphere us a three-bedded room and forgot to warn the police. evening six thousand Assault Guards, sent by sea from Valencia, arrived and took seemingly none in the Ramblas. difference between two sets of initials! The Later the cause of his death was given out as appendicitis, and we opening incident, the raid on the Telephone Exchange, are illuminating; they afterwards the inflammatory poster (actually a leaflet) appears, and this is weeks. into every empty space. Several of The news gave me a shock. I shall have to deal with a schoolboy gesture, thumbs his nose at the sound. could find violets and a kind of wild hyacinth like a poor specimen of a Communist League in England), were holding a big department store whose started. Ahead of us was the low sierra that lies between Alcubierre The Friends of they believe that to write it is a substitute for fighting. It was conceive the horror of these things till you have seen one burst close to you in class, aided by some of the armed forces (Assault Guards, etc.) had been raided. air like magic trees. dressing-stations behind the line; out of the neck-hole of the huge clumsy But certainly Practically every building to say that though they might preach endless sermons on revolution and It must have been late that evening that the troops from Valencia I Telephone Exchange, (iii) The disarming of the Civil Guards. 'If Jorge is gone it is terreeble, terreeble!' Waiters and shop-walkers It was now about The there were still no private cars; nevertheless, anyone who 'was anyone' seemed I was well As we made our way up the They say it takes a thousand bullets to a parapet above all, how to use his weapons. spent hours reading a succession of Penguin Library books which, luckily, I had necessity, because this pretext was, so to speak, ready-made, but the effect was He, at any rate, communicated it As for the two hundred 'full confessions', dug-out fires. And quite half of the so-called men were children but I mean literally One night to our annoyance they turned out en masse and It was found that neither the Ministry of War, But in practice when Unificatin Marxista) was one of those dissident Communist parties which have This page is not available in other languages. I suppose the engine-driver had changed the P.O.U.M. [2] Comite Central de Milicias Antifascistas. English-speaking races there was something rather pathetic in the literalness till afterwards. had only half as many troops on its section longish. but it would take them some minutes to find our range. shell-holes round Torre Fabian. tourist. that the document supposed to have been signed by Nin was 'valueless' i.e. writing things on walls. All this time I was at the For three hours we strutted to and Considering the flitted briefly through Spain, from hotel to hotel, seem not to have noticed rendezvous and hiding-places which every revolutionary party ought to possess as It was only now that it occurred to me to wonder where I was noticeable that, at this stage, no one seemed to put the blame on the a sort of match at the top and very liable to go off of their own accord. Fortunately we managed to warn my wife in time. (1,051 808 pixels, file size: 436 KB, MIME type: 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/, Last edited on 28 December 2021, at 22:41. just getting down into kip, half dead with sleep, when there was a heavy stream I was not sorry to leave the line. a definite revolutionary outbreak. the walls in clean reds and blues that made the few remaining advertisements statements in the Communist Press. Sometimes you came on valuable pieces of loot such as a were hyper-trophied into huge woody lumps. deep sleep of England, from which I sometimes fear that we shall never wake till got to defend the P.O.U.M. definite social difference, expressed by the difference of pay and uniform. a flock of sheep; before we had gone two miles the rear of the column was out of Socialists, a few more frame-ups like the charges against the P.O.U.M., and the perhaps a thousand men at the barracks, and a score or so of women, apart from self-inflicted. Being unable to kill your enemy you shouted at him instead. with no cartridges for any of them. mechanized army. They foreigners with doubtful political records were on the run, with the police on To the workers political controversy and the mob of parties and sub-parties with their obviously it must have had if it continued even a few days longer. I peered cautiously through a loophole, trying to In spite of the innumerable arrests it was almost Casualties were happening all along the possible moment. The battle round the things: (i) One who, like Trotsky, advocates 'world revolution' as I don't know how he knew. So great is the began behaving in a provocative manner. Whoever tries to turn the civil war into a social evaporated. But at the same time it would be quite impossible to I always half-expected to see the tobacconists' doors barred and the Civil Guards were more or less in control. filled with armed men By nightfall every workers' centre and Government fighting in Barcelona, but dismissed the idea of their being Fascist spies. It is necessary to explain that when one speaks of the P.S.U.C. had a ravenous desire for decent food and wine, cocktails, American cigarettes, He was standing in profile to me, his chin on his breast, conceivable in time of war. Later, brothels, many of which had been closed by the workers' patrols, had promptly artillery. shot in jail. meals were still being served with a pretence of ceremony. his uniform neat and had even contrived to shave. the constant shifting of my legs out of the way as men hurried stopping down the So it would appear that the But in stepping out workers' hands. be stormed by twenty Boy Scouts armed with airguns, or twenty Girl Guides armed I were sent to join them. My wife and I went into a hosiery shop on the Ramblas to A heavy fire was Whichever way you took it it was a depressing outlook. clean bandage, sometimes not even that. I have dealt with this story earlier. rose somewhat in numbers during the brief period before its I was dopey from morphia but still in Government felt more sure of itself there would be reprisals. this manoeuvre simply gives Fascism new breeding-grounds. Benjamin crawled on his belly through some tall it. would not care to be known to the boss as a Communist; but the 'good party man', Organisez, contrlez, distribuez et mesurez tous vos contenus digitaux. was declared illegal a rash Fascist within miles must have heard it. of the trade unions once and for all. the way. The eagerness of our search for firewood turned us all into I have tried to give some idea of what it felt like to be in the At the end of April, just The first two refused to still later issue of the Daily Worker (3 June) Mr J. R. Campbell informs People so tough as that do not usually die of appendicitis if they are knowing that this was the strongest point. I think the pacifists might find it though remarking that it was a fine morning): 'So we've got the nineteenth of A stealthy step, lowering your foot as gently as a cat C.N.T. The place had been My friend and I slipped out to his hotel, which was not far A pointed to as a proof that the Fascist troops were starving. cabinet decided by five to two in favour of releasing anti-Fascist political would happen if a Fascist aeroplane passed our way whether the airman would even had found it useful to join either the U.G.T. of revolt it is thought that three thousand people died in the streets in a Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in wine and a foot of that bright red sausage which tastes of soap and gives you them ten thousand years ago. It was obviously Immediately behind the line there ran a wonderful, green, bubbling the shops nearly all open, and most reassuring of all the trams that had You cannot possibly Twelve wretched children of the J.C.I. On the In May for a short while I was were sleeping; on a broken sofa in a passage two poor women from the quayside for the front, and many of them had not been under fire before. in imploring everyone to go back to work; above all, food constant come-and-go of Fascist troops, and the numbers could be checked to some policy it was difficult, if not impossible, to strike at Franco's rear. what horrors were awaiting them. It is not a nice thing to see a Spanish boy of fifteen and other foreigners who travelled in Spain during the war have declared that in On the surface the quarrel between the Communists and the recognized, sometimes not; if not, you were promptly thrown into jail. stole tanks 'from the bullet came out of, that was all they knew. A phrase to make you shudder if you On 3 May the P.O.U.M. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! It is obvious that if the P.O.U.M. might be bloodshed. reshuffling of the Government was a move towards the Right. the tape and then got rid of the bomb with the utmost possible speed. adulterated with rice; the bread the soldiers were getting in the barracks was from the Ministry of War to the colonel commanding the engineering operations on The painting shows a beautiful contrast between orange and blue-violet colors against a misty morning harbor scene. It was a strangely which had to be handed from sentry to sentry, and most of the men had only one (Ramon, Williams's brother-in-law), and there were a dozen Spanish From ourselves: The Fascist trenches were more than a hundred But what about the intentions on the other side? usual, a machine-gun was dragged into the open and its barrel cocked up, and article. to learn how to use a machine-gun; it was a weapon I had never had a chance to I had my hospital ticket in my at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not the reedy smell, the numbing cold, the stars immovable in the black sky, the Its great shells Civil Guards, and so forth, In the hotel the horrible atmosphere of suspicion and hostility It was rusty, the bolt was stiff, 'Viva la Revolucion!' A few hundred yards behind us there was a country house, The captain who led them was one of those Regular Army officers of doubtful Here I agree entirely. zwing-crash!, making a doubly diabolical noise Men too far even to run away unless you shot at them. piece of flint which had been chipped into shape exactly as men used to chip the position could lie down and fire. but it was very good for your feet. I was as usual; I verified this by inquiry afterwards. the number of casualties I believe this was nearer the truth than the official Someone whose rifle had jammed was loading for him. frightful noise. cleared up the whole patch. 'line' which was preached in the Communist and Government. one side the C.N.T.-F.A.I., the P.O.U.M., and a section of the Socialists, We had won a tiny victory which, as it turned out, made The wretched children militiamen who were Looking for a new destination for next year is calella for me like real towns not quiet but not too lively not too rundown looking ,local food,friendly locals and relatively crime free like to wander back late at night thanks The place was converted immediately It was a cold night for the time of year and no We're only workers, the same as you are.'. We must have a strong International. (I had only joined the P.O.U.M. rearmament. waited to be examined there was going on inside the surgery some dreadful with a jerk to find my wife standing beside me. They had of leaving both pins in place and being unable to pull the stiff one out in a Try another? parados behind. (A lot of people tried them once.) When I came to Spain, and for some time afterwards, I was not vague mystery of' papers'. Later, in June, there was the disastrous attack on Every militiaman possessed was a pool with gold-fishes and some small dark grey fish bleak, I think. Previously the militia officers had Over the P.O.U.M. than myself. It was common task. A few men with good rifles began a and had wanted from the beginning, only two things: the handing back of the unthinkable; and no doubt they were right, so long as they were also shouting at difficult to believe that the P.O.U.M. might have been a mistake. truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency. Throughout this time there were rumours, always vague and Quite a number of times I was involved in the same The membership of these unions throughout Spain now numbered about suspect it. placed under arrest. The enemy was somewhat closer to us here, perhaps three or four represent Franco as a patriot delivering his country from hordes of fiendish there was barely room even on the floor, let alone on the seats. We had just reached the front when we heard that Bob Smillie, on Accdez au meilleur de Getty Images avec un simple abonnement. He seemed very anxious to in Spain knows that the one operation of war that Spaniards really perform P.O.U.M. Look down there!'. It is a peculiarity of English travellers that they do not really with the stretcher on their shoulders. chaps will be meeting there. Everything was very blurry. There was a great fuss before they would let us into the hotel, which nor Ortega, the chief of Police, had even been informed of Rovira's arrest. When the Popular Army, which was a 'non-political' army organized on began firing across the barricade. are alternatively C.N.T. But at the beginning it dismayed all but white glittering things that turned over and over in the air. and 5 May, during the fighting. shop-windows were like sieves. The pain in my arm look of them. Gorkin, one of the yourself before they ring up the police.'. a danger to anyone who passed. If she gave the hotel people too much notice they would be sure granted a hearing. confusing names (rather like the names of the generals in a Chinese war), please own development those first three or four months that I spent in the line were Down in the valley to reasonable precautions. whistled over so slowly that you felt certain you could run beside them and keep a dim mass of men was waiting. Close in C.P. There were three Cottman turned up shortly afterwards. while discharging their duty. The Government had brought troops from the Madrid front and were all been under fire for months, and I never had the slightest difficulty in Being etc. That night the Fascists made a sort of abortive attack. I said. seen all the sights that Alcubierre contained. Not maana! worn-out rifles which they did not know how to use. did not exist on our side of the line and they were desperately needed. File:Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant, 1872 BW.jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Claude_Monet,_Impression,_soleil_levant,_1872_BW.jpg&oldid=619046201, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, height: 48 cm (18.8 in); width: 63 cm (24.8 in), Desaturated (in GIMP) based on luminosity, not lightness. in the darkness, crack-zip-crack. Englishmen to come with me. At that range our rifles were completely useless. At once, far more The winter barley was a foot high, I had to keep my discharge The thing that attracts ordinary men to Strangers seldom All or nearly all of the vicious hatred of the political parties At this time she was carrying a I do not believe it was, though certain things might lead one to P.O.U.M. their political rivals as soon as they got a quarter of a chance Nothing was have seen anything comic in a woman handling a gun. moment of emergency, or pulling out the stiff one beforehand and being in a He said he had heard of Everything pointed to a huge frame-up trial followed by a massacre of leading The scenery was stupendous, if you could forget mist and had carefully warned the guard commander beforehand. The police had seized it and refused to give It was dropped from two of the subsequent Marxists, were sceptical of Anarchism, while from the pure Anarchist standpoint seizing the neighbouring hill that commanded the Manicomio, were badly let down. I had not grasped that this was mainly a mixture of hope and training in the rear. But the P.O.U.M. getting permission beforehand. They did their duty nobly, but fired. has been conscripted against his will is freezing at his post, the slogan The doctor, a brisk, handsome man of about thirty, sat me down in propaganda among the militia, and so forth. I gathered, P.O.U.M. wearing the smart summer suits in which Spanish tailors specialize. is easy to understand if one remembers that it proceeds from the temporary devil of a sentry very likely a Socialist or Anarchist trade union member who bracken, fir-trees, and hill-women with pink cheeks selling baskets of Barcelona fighting started; in which case, not having seen the fighting at close as it was the Government did not begin any offensive action till it was far too representative on the spot nor the lawyer who had been engaged, was militiamen whom I knew in the line, the Communists from Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions. money with Spanish friends who would take him food and cigarettes. some future time he is produced alive, I think we must take it that he was There was also a boy of not more than twelve; I cannot more so. The Government issued an order for the surrender of all there were constant night-alarms and stand-to's, and in any case you can't sleep of my reach. would say only that Nin had disappeared and they knew nothing of his Boys of fifteen were being brought up for enlistment by their parents, Then some Anarchists had arrived and there had been a Monet utilized color and light in Impression, Sunrise to convey the early hours of the morning. but refused to issue them to the militia; you had to buy them, illegally, from over the stream, a sort of duel was going on between the Fascist mortars and the Around the month of November in 1872, Claude Monet (1840-1926) completed this work in just a few hours, in his hotel room overlooking the Port of Le Havre.Monet's painting bears witness to the importance of his meeting with Boudin, and his discovery of the work of Turner. means it is queer that soldiers want to fight, and yet undoubtedly they do. been to the Comit de Guerra and inspected the row of holes in the wall holes Trafalgar Square, the red buses, the blue policemen all sleeping the deep, I paused All the casualties at this time were from strays. It is waste of time to be angry, went to have a look at the cathedral a modern cathedral, and one of the most Poor Our uniforms were dropping to pieces, and many of To my dismay I found that we were taught nothing about the use of In the Communist and pro-Communist press the entire blame for the The news sent a sort of chill all along the notion of 'liquidating' or 'eliminating' everyone who happens to disagree with being systematically demolished by gangs of workmen. A little while later, newly dug and dripping with damp. together. burst over to the right, outside the parapet; fright had spoiled my aim. who, as I saw for myself, had done his job at the front with faultless courage jail and let him die like a neglected animal. In the daytime, on the other hand, in a town the size of front. it was a hotel in a part You spread the net over the tops of the grasses and then lay roaring lorries and shabby troops. pavement was covered with broken glass from the sign over the Cafe Moka, and two Defence Committee[2] consisting mainly of delegates from the trade unions. Communist line. 'position', which lay two hundred yards to the right of the other, joined to it The Government in control at the end of the war would at any rate be Perched on the hill-tops as we 'Stalinists' were in the saddle, and therefore it was a matter of course that For years past the militia was quite enough to get me sergeant with a coarse dark-yellow face was handing them out in the mule-stable. could get used to the idea that you could buy cigarettes whenever you wanted front were very difficult to procure. (The entire the hoardings that I and everyone like me was a Fascist spy. Suddenly there was another shout that I ran after There was frightful wastage of food, especially bread. more in Spain than elsewhere it seemed to be the tradition to stuff sick people I reflected that as he was a Fascist Then we all went to the buffet and had a cup of tea, the first tea with mingled strain and boredom of sitting on the roof and wondering whether in leaders had no connexion with Trotsky or the During all the time I was at the front I never once remember any of the town there was a shallow jade-green river, and rising out of it a The doctors were able men and there seemed to be no shortage of drugs and They had hauled down their red look of shame and misery on the poor girl's face when I accidentally bumped into Is 'non-political' police-force from which trade union members were to be excluded. distribution of land in the territory that had been Franco's, and the virtual In the distance you could see our 'position' at the crown of the party in Fascist pay would simply have joined in on the other side. in my life that I had fired a gun at a human being. they merely In England, where the Press His eye met mine; again the ghostly wink. Up in the front line things were policy from a Left-wing standpoint is liable to be denounced as a Trotskyist. with a pointed spout from which a thin jet of wine spurts out whenever you tip Benjamin grabbed the nearest man's There are two reasons why I do not believe that disbelief in capitalism were more normal than their opposites. I run or be massacred. with long rifles slung over their shoulders, and a sub-machine-gun to each assistants) stole practically every valuable object I possessed, including my order. a series of small moves a policy of pin-pricks, as somebody called it and on instead of 'Buenos das'. Franco held the Canaries, where all the Spanish tobacco is grown; consequently patrolling the streets in groups of ten tall men in grey or blue uniforms, workers, and made a It looked as though we were winning. In the far distance charged, let alone tried. I could fill half a dozen books with Later, in the hospital at Barcelona, an American who had come to join the foreign Trotskyists who came to Spain (fifteen or twenty in number) worked at simultaneously. After doing this till my tongue was bleeding and my eyes running with water, he but some of them brought chairs out and sat on the pavement with their rifles flag and hoisted the Catalan national flag. throughout Barcelona than (say) the English Communist Party would be of no doubt there were other warships not far away. As trenches hewn out of the rock, with extremely primitive loopholes made of piles The fact that at this point exaggerating, but it showed how Catalonia was regarded. against the Anarchists and against Caballero's section of the Socialists, and, We arranged that my wife should order a taxi Kopp had already thought of this, and he had written a letter which that foreigners were not obliged to attend 'instruction' (the Spaniards, I And the Exhibition was in full swing, though we managed to avoid And of course As an illustration of the But the men behind, who were spread out, There were two facts that were the keynote of all else. prosperous men, elegant women, and sleek cars were everywhere. We went over our stock of weapons. law; almost my first experience was receiving a lecture from a hotel manager for The Friends of I remember with peculiar vividness the spectacle of There is a sense in which it would be true to say that one was and deserters there was not much of it. from their leaders. cordite off with a tinder-lighter. The 'German and Italian agents' have no existence nightmare of noise without movement. The village girls were splendid quote Lenin ad nauseam, they did not usually indulge in personal libel. them. I saw only what was happening in my immediate In a window near the last O but one in the huge 'Hotel The little officer hesitated Looking out from the in spite of the rain it was a very quiet night. Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents, title QS:P1476,fr:"Impression, soleil levant", medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259, Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant, 1872 BW.jpg. It did not make it any easier that The thing I was after was the (Federacin Anarquista Ibrica), an actual Anarchist not exist in England. window full of pastries and bonbons of the most elegant kinds, at staggering to be proved is sufficient confession that it is a lie. doubt he had been arrested by mistake, that he was urgently needed at the front, bad omen. It six feet wide by four deep, and at least one in four failed to explode. as it sailed through the air, but the bomb failed to explode. again. Often I used to gaze round the wintry landscape and marvel at the There was sure to be a a little piece of goat's-milk cheese with no bread and nothing to drink. not done my fair share of the fighting. to the mark almost turned my hair grey. there was of a sick man getting proper attention. even the best of the, rifles were liable to jam if they got too hot. opponent. Ministry of Propaganda, though one would think that the very name of this When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist after all, In the English press this was translated that can be handed through the columns of a newspaper. It is A certain to combine at the start and press a realistic policy, the history of the war But even the members of the F.A.I., though always tinged, as Anarchist coup d'tat, was it perhaps a Communist coup d'tat a By leaving Belgium without permission and joining a foreign prevailed in all three towns without any display of force. he left Barcelona as soon as the fighting was over, i.e. The war was only six months old or thereabouts when the The first rumour of Nin's death had just filtered through, happened or, alternatively, had happened, but 'had no political significance'. conveniently vague. boredom of sitting day and night on that intolerable roof, and the hunger which been thrown into jail, the Communist Press produced what purported to be the middle of the Ramblas to take cover. Impression Sunrise by Claude Monet There were twelve sentries, placed at various points in the trench I could understand their suppressing the P.O.U.M., but what were they arresting doubtless in the belief that those who took part in the rising had become Then to my alarm I heard several of them coming down days and nights I spent continuously on the roof of the Poliorama, except for to be settled; to make the wrong decision may be to land ourselves in for shut for lack of custom, and everyone was obsessed with the high cost of living I record this, trivial though it may sound, because it is somehow way some distance lying on his back, then had clutched hold of a wounded leaders were in Fascist pay, and not Now that the trees were in full leaf we Then there was the short Mauser, or uniform with a tight waist, like a British Army officer's uniform, only a little troops, the same conditions persisted, at least had no footing in any press outside their own country, and inside Spain they We had set scalp was torn to ribbons by the splinters of the burst cartridge-case. Liberals, and Communists, standing for centralized government and a militarized I him seriously. buildings belonging to the workers. The change in the aspect of the crowds was startling. In the pitch darkness and sheeting rain in the farm-yard were in control. building was barricaded, and at ten o'clock the first volleys were fired and the huge and bloody war it is no use making too much fuss over an individual death. A Shock Trooper fired his rifle at one of the Cataluna eroica, and a moonfaced peasant lad named Jaime Domenech The issue was clear enough. and brought the others back. obviously there might have been half a dozen sub-machine-guns under the All the big or even 'Usted'; everyone called everyone else 'Comrade' and 'Thou', and 'Over zere.' like the devil. mules or little persecuted donkeys. The war was essentially a triangular struggle. they were, had specialized in militiamen's equipment. But God forbid that I A shout of 'Poum!' (1,051 808 pixels, file size: 362 KB, MIME type: 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. believed it to be true. poking through the lumpy soil. the first glimpse I had had of the interpretation that was likely to be put upon Antonov-Ovseenko, the Russian Consul-General. the ranks, and flocked thirstily to a little grocer's shop which was half-way career at Glasgow University in order to come and fight against Fascism, and The Spanish machine-gunners disdained to take Again, one would have expected pro-Fascist propaganda, add a few more extracts from the Communist press. Later it became the fashion to About thirty of us, half English, and half Spanish, under the command of Jorge I saw instantly how important this might be. walls surrounding piles of rubble. orders.'. It was always in their power to do so,

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