Resumen de The anarchist feedback loop: Spanish solidarity campaigns in London and the birth of revolutionary syndicalism, 1896-1913
While quantitatively smaller and less rooted than the Italian, French or Jewish anarchist communities, the Spanish libertarians of London exerted an influence that was out of proportion with their size. A vigorous movement against Spanish state repression emerged in Britain in 1896–1909. These campaigns brought together a cosmopolitan panoply of activists. This chapter explores these Spanish solidarity campaigns, and how these complex entanglements facilitated the evolution of anarchism towards syndicalism. The key link between Spanish refugees, the London anarchist exiles, the British labour movement and anti-colonial activists was indeed no other than Fernando Tarrida del Marmol. Traditionally, scholars have presented syndicalism as a brainchild of French anarchism, and the National Confederation of Labour as its mother ship. Syndicalism in Spain and Britain was an imitation of the French model. The vignettes of three characters and their interplay, Fernando Tarrida del Marmol, Teresa Claramunt and Pedro Vallina will serve to illustrate the importance of the Barcelona-Paris-London feedback loop.
