Living Anarchism

'Magnificent.'Paul Preston, author of The Spanish HolocaustBrick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of Jos Peirats (19081989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective agentthe working class Peirats was born intoand the affective ties of kinship, friendship, and community that cemented into a movement, the most powerful of its type in the world. Chris Ealham is the author of Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-revolution in Barcelona, 18981937.