2011-2012 Challenges. Number 18

This week´s questions will refer to the International Workingmen´s Association and anarchism in Spain:

The first members of the IWA in Madrid

Source: http://platea.pntic.mec.es/~macruz/regenta/XIX.html

QUESTION 1

After the 1868 Glorious Revolution in Spain, the International Workingmen´s Association sent some propagandists to Spain spread the ideas of workers´ union. Who were the Marxist and Anarchist IWA propagandists who came to Spain? Which of them got more success?

QUESTION 2

After the failure of the Commune of Paris, there was a strong repression against the Anarchists and some of them oriented to the so-called "propaganda by the deed" and used terrorism as a way of destroying the institutions that repressed them. In Spain three prime ministers were assassinated by Anarchist gunmen in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th century. Who were these three prime ministers ? What were the names of their killers?

QUESTION 3

One of the consequences of the Tragic Week of Barcelona in 1909 was the execution of a famous Anarchist pedagogue. There was an international protest campaign against this execution. Who was this man?

Tragic Week of Barcelona, 1909

Source: http://www.fdomingor.jazztel.es/semana%20tragica.html

QUESTION 4

In 1910 an Anarchist union was created in Spain. What was its name? How many members did this union have before the Spanish Civil War?

QUESTION 5

Although the Anarchists declared themselves apolitical, during the Spanish Civil War four Anarchists became members of the government of the 2nd Republic. Who were these four ministers?