The Revolutionary Society of Barcelona

As chaos subsided, this new revolutionary society began to function. Much of the Catalan economy was now being run by workers themselves. From Barcelona, trams and cinemas, factories,. department stores and even grey hand tracks were run by their own employees. The trade unions sought a food supply. Union noters drove out to the villages with goods to exchange for food. Barter, not purchasing, kept Barcelona fed for the first weeks of the civil war. In some places, money itself, seen by anarchists as inherently evil, was abolished. Shopping was done with vouchers, issued by local committees. They had to represent hours of production. Everything was calculated in hours of production - peasants liked it