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Regional Defence Council of Aragon

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80: 696: 68: 319: 294: 687:. For their part, the leaders of the CNT made every effort to prevent the executions of anarchists, but eventually accepted the dissolution of the "Council of Aragon" as a matter of fact. Subsequently, when crop yields began to fail, some of the broken-up collectives were restored, without making them what they were during the CNT administration. Meanwhile, many anarchists were interned in prisons or concentration camps under republican control until the end of the war. 509:, Cristóbal Alvaldetrecu and Julián Merino. The call for this important meeting was made by Francisco Carreño, Pablo Ruiz and Julián Merino. The Plenary debated the proposed collaboration with the republican governing bodies, resolving to create, in the margin of the republican governments, Regional Defense Councils linked in a federated way to a National Defense Council, following the directives proposed on September 15, 1936 in 592:
figures. On the other hand, in the documentary Living the Utopia, testimonies and data are collected that would confirm that in many communities production increased. Although many of the collectives had been a success as social communities, for the communists their contribution to the war left much to be desired. The republican government had already tried to establish a coordinated action in this regard, given the needs of the
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It is complicated to estimate figures on the economic management of anarchist communities, since most of the reports are biased according to ideological interests and sympathies. Conservative historian Hugh Thomas argues that coal production in the Utrillas mines only reached one tenth of the pre-war
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After the military coup, in October 1936, a dividing line was established from north to south of Aragon that marked the "Aragon Front"; the western side was occupied by the fascists and the eastern side by Republicans and anarchists. In the areas that theoretically remained under the jurisdiction of
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were represented in the administration of the Council. From January 1937, the revolutionary character of the Council would be progressively diminished under pressure from the members of the government coalition, whose presence and number gradually increased. For example, in January,
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by surprise, to avoid a reaction. The Local CNT Federation of Trade Unions was attacked, and Líster's troops destroyed some of the town as they invaded. Tanks and artillery were concentrated at the exit of the city. There were some clashes and there were casualties.
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by the National Plenary of the CNT. The Plenary agreed to the creation of the Regional Defense Council of Aragon. This included approximately 450 rural communities, almost all of which were run by the CNT, with just 20 run by the
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the Republic, those who really had the power were the militias that protected the revolutionary committees, almost all of them made up of anarchists who worked outside the Republican State.
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from December 1936 until its dissolution. Its life was ephemeral since its activities lasted less than a year until it was dissolved by the republican authorities, pressured by the
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Despite its revolutionary origin it was initially recognized on October 6 by government decree. It held its first official assembly on October 15 of the same year, where
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and the anarchist members of the CRDA were arrested on several charges (among others, Jewelry Smuggling). Another 700 anarchists were arrested in the rest of Aragon.
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The independence with which the Regional Council acted had always been an irritant for the republican authorities. Thus, after having re-established its control over
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Ascaso received the official appointment of a government delegate on January 19, 1937. In mid-February 1937 a congress, attended by 500 delegates representing 80,000
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Extraordinary Plenary of Trade Unions and Columns of the Regional Committee of Aragon, Rioja and Navarra of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT)
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tradition of the Aragonese peasantry and the influence that the CNT enjoyed in this territory. The revolutionary situation that developed in
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as Governor General to manage the republican territory in the three Aragonese provinces. Mantecón, a former member of the Council and a
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and from there formed the main power of revolutionary Aragon. Their leaders soon declared that rural Aragon had become a "Spanish
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According to the CRDA bulletin nº 12, from 21 December 1936, the council composition was as follows:
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schools (that had been organized by anarcho-syndicalist commissions) returned to government control.
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Territory controlled and administered by the CRDA (in red) within Republican Spain (in pink)
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The dissolution was carried out through a military intervention that occupied the town of
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After the dissolution of the Council and the arrest of Ascaso, the Government appointed
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The origins of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon are, for the most part, in the
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Boletín del Consejo Regional de Defensa de Aragón y Boletín Oficial de Aragón.
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sectors, was determined to disband this Aragonese entity. Finally on 4 August
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Gaceta de la República: Diario Oficial núm. 223, (11 de agosto de 1937)
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Cover of a Regional Defence Council of Aragon bulletin, 24 June 1937.
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Cover of a Regional Defence Council of Aragon bulletin, 1 July 1937.
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Territory administered by the Regional Defence Council of Aragon (
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The Council of Aragon was the first autonomous government of
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A Study of the Revolution in Spain. Chapter 4 – October 1936
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members of the CNT, with eventual representation of all the
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since 1707, becoming a government of its own within the
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La sentencia que nunca vió la luz. Versus “La Rosaleda”
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happened prior to the arrival of militia columns from
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Index

Anarchist Aragon
Autonomous entity
Second Spanish Republic
Flag of Consejo de Aragón
Coat of arms of Consejo de Aragón

Fraga
Caspe
Demonym
Aragonese
Anarchist commune
Motto
President
Joaquín Ascaso
Spanish Civil War
Disestablished
Second Spanish Republic
Second Spanish Republic
Spain
Spanish
Aragonese
Confederación Nacional del Trabajo
Spanish Revolution
Spanish Civil War
Aragon
Aragon
Second Spanish Republic
anarchist
anti-fascist
Popular Front

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