What Happened in Barcelona?

The revolution that transformed barcelona in a matter of days sprang initially from individual c and t unions, impelled by their most advanced militants. As their example spread, it was not only large enterprises, but small workshops and businesses that were being taken over. A booktion continues, the administrative apparatus of republican spain belonged almost entirely to the unions and their political organizations. Police and many cities were replaced by armed workers patrols. Militia units were formed everywhere, in factories, on farms and in socialist and anarchists community centeres. And union halls, initially including women as well as men. Local revolutionary committees co ordinated the feeding of the cities, the operations of the economy and the meeting out