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...Russian civil war, the Red Army had hardly been organized; the force which repelled attacks on 17 fronts was that of the peasants who were fighting for their homes. Spain is the country most favorable to the anarchist movement at present. There there is a very strong anarchical-syndicalist movement composed not only of workers but also of doctors, lawyers and leading intellectuals. The reactionaries were victorious in the last elections only because the anarchists do not believe in political action and therefore did not vote. I do not see any trend toward more individual freedom in Russia; in fact...
Promptly up popped that fiery Roman Syndicalist President Arturo di Marsanich of the National Confederation of Fascist Syndicates of Commerce. While Il Duce sat expressionless as stone, Signor Marsanich cried: "There is only one logical consequence of Fascist corporative policy: the Council of Corporations should absorb the Chamber of Deputies and become the sole legislative assembly. . . . Italy will then have an assembly of men qualified to legislate on economic matters as well as those qualified to legislate in the fields of ethics and politics...
Illegal opposition, the President said, centred in the radically syndicalist East and reactionary Catholic Northeast. Certainly Catholic Navarra and the Basque Provinces seethed with discontent last week at the disestablishment of Mother Church (TIME, Oct. 26). In Barcelona, the President said, a movement was on foot to declare a "sudden general strike." Hereafter any strike begun without at least eight days notice will be suppressed by the Government as "revolutionary...
...Other Syndicalist ladies were not so soft. While hundreds of frightened Barcelonians gathered for safety in the ancient Gothic cathedral, a gang of wild-eyed Amazons broke in, climbed high in the lantern over the West Front and began sniping at soldiers and police from the roof while Barcelona's sacred geese squawked horribly in the cloister...
...this time Catalonia's "President" Macia, who owes his election largely to Syndicalist votes, did nothing. But as the bloodshed continued even he became affected...