Word: anarchists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first sphere is labor, organized now into state-controlled syndicates but under the shadow of the great anarchist and socialist unions of the Republic-which still operate underground, still hold the sympathies of many workers. The second sphere is the Christian Democratic Movement, a loose coalition of Catholic groups ranging from the conservative Accion Catolica, which supports the regime, to the left-leaning Catholic labor movements, which oppose it. (Members of Opus Dei can be found in all groups.) The third is the Monarchists, well organized but without mass popular support. And above them all is the army, leaning...
...econo my keeps laying its golden eggs, Spain's future is bright, indeed. Which is why it is so important that Spain's present boom continue. A few more years of rising prosperity could easily instill the feeling of general well being on which, in anarchist Spain at least, real political maturity must be based...
Such men could hardly be expected to hear the hum of machinery that was changing their world, the increasingly impudent demands of the newly prosperous middle classes, even the crash of anarchist bombs. Says Tuchman: "So enchanting was the vision of a stateless society, without government, without law, without ownership of property, in which, corrupt institutions having been swept away, man would be free to be good as God intended him, that six heads of state were assassinated for its sake in the 20 years before 1914. Not one could qualify as a tyrant. Their deaths were the gestures...
...shown a deep religious sensitivity and an interest in pacifism. He had tried to join a Trappist monastery, but was rejected as too young. Later, he spent a year as a student in a Vermont seminary. Since 1963, LaPorte had served as a part-time volunteer with the radically anarchist and pacifist Catholic Worker movement, to which David Miller, the jailed draft-card burner, also belongs. Other volunteers recalled him as devout and quiet, a normally cheerful youth who drank, smoked and dated occasionally...
...Thumbs. The town of Homestead settled into a state of siege regularly interrupted by violence. An anarchist from New York, Alexander Berkman, inflamed by newspaper accounts of the strike, came to Homestead determined to assassinate Frick; one day he managed to pump two shots into the mighty magnate, but Frick survived. Eight thousand Pennsylvania National Guardsmen bivouacked in the town under a general who was sympathetic to management; for expressing an anti-Frick sentiment, one soldier was strung up by the thumbs. When Frick imported scab labor under armed guard, the strikers poisoned their food; at least three died...