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 Orwell describes the atmosphere of Barcelona in December 1936. "The anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing ... It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle ... every wall was scrawled with the hammer and sickle ... every shop and café had an inscription saying that it had been collectivized." Further to this, "The Anarchists" (referring to the Spanish CNT and FAI) were "in control", tipping was prohibited by workers themselves, and servile forms of speech, such as "Señor" or "Don", were abandoned.

The SECOND anarchist century started with the assassination of an archbishop in the 1920's by Los Solidarios.

Then the 1930's saw the worlds greatest ever revolution in most of Spain through most of 1936.

Then Spain ensured the defeat of the Axis powers in the 1940's. Hitler lost Gibralter, then Malta, then Africs, then the war. 

Then John Bowles wrote " Politics and Opinion in the 19th century "…