47. Lessons of the Spanish Revolution by Vernon Richards
In this episode we’re marking the 90th anniversary of the outbreak of both the Spanish Civil War and the Spanish Revolution of July 1936, by discussing Vernon Richard’s classic Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, originally published by Freedom Press in 1953. This book provides an highly critical account of the decisions made by figures within the movement in Spain by a contemporary anarchist, and it continues to provoke debates about what happened, and what went wrong, in the turbulent early months of war and revolution 90 years ago.
Lessons from the Spanish Revolution is available as aPDF from libcom.org here: files.libcom.org/files/lessons-spanish-revolution.pdf (https://files.libcom.org/files/lessons-spanish-revolution.pdf)
The journal Spain and the World, edited by Richards,is available from The Freedom Press here: https://freedomnews.org.uk/archive/#archive1930s (https://freedomnews.org.uk/archive/%23archive1930s)
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Danny and Jim will both be speaking about anarchism, Spainand revolution at the Radical History Zone event organised by the Bristol Radical History Group during the Bristol Anarchist Bookfair. This event is being held at Central Friends Meeting House in Champion Square from 10.30 to16.30, more information here: https://www.brh.org.uk/site/event-series/radical-history-zone-at-the-bristol-anarchist-bookfair/ (https://www.brh.org.uk/site/event-series/radical-history-zone-at-the-bristol-anarchist-bookfair/)
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You can keep in touch with the podcast our email:abcwithdannyandjim@gmail.com,and our Substack: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/ (https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/).
If you enjoy this podcast, do tell your friends, colleaguesand comrades to listen.
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & RafaelDionísio,'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka MusicSharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W (https://bit.ly/35ToW4W)
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left BookClublogo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv (https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv).
The image in this episode is the cover of the original 1953Freedom Press edition of Lessons of the Spanish Revolution.
2 May 2026
46. Hotel Lux, with Maurice J. Casey
In this episode we’re delighted to be joined by Maurice J.Casey, a research fellow at Queens University Belfast and author of Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals, which was published by Footnote in 2025.
Hotel Lux is a fascinating, moving account of the lives of women and men who travelled to Moscow in the 1920s to work for the Comintern. We really enjoyed both reading and talking through the book with Maurice, exploring how the book came about, and ideas of friendship, tragedy, hope and memory.
In March 2026 Maurice produced a documentary for the BBC about The Alpenpost, an incredible source that he discovered during his research for the book. You can listen to it here: BBC Radio 4 - Illuminated, The Alpenpost: A Girl's Guide to Fighting Hitler and Stalin (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sclz)
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You can keep in touch with the podcast our email: abcwithdannyandjim@gmail.com,and our Substack: https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/ (https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/).
If you enjoy this podcast, do tell your friends, colleagues and comrades to listen.
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & RafaelDionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W (https://bit.ly/35ToW4W)
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Clublogo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv (https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv).
The image in this episode is the cover of Maurice’s fantastic book.
23 Dec 2025
45. Another War is Possible
In this episode we’re discussing Tomas Rothaus’s Another War is Possible (PM Press, 2025) an account of the movement against capitalism over the turn of the 21st century, written by an anarchist participant in the events.
You can listen to an interview with Rothaus on Last Straw Radio here: Militant Anarchist Experiences in the Antiglobalization Era | The Final Straw Radio Podcast (https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08/31/militant-anarchist-experiences-in-the-antiglobalization-era/)---------------------------------------------------------------
You can keep in touch with the podcast our emailabcwithdannyandjim@gmail.com, and our Substack https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/ (https://abcwithdannyandjim.substack.com/).If you enjoy this podcast, do tell your friends, colleagues and comrades to listen.
The podcast music is Stealing Orchestra & RafaelDionísio, 'Gente da minha terra (que me mete um nojo do caralho).' Reproduced from the Free Music Archive under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License, available here: https://bit.ly/35ToW4W (https://bit.ly/35ToW4W)
The podcast logo is an adapted version of the Left Book Clublogo (1936-48), reproduced, edited and shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence. Original available here: https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv (https://bit.ly/35Nd6cv).
The image in this episode is a photograph fromthe insurrection which accompanied the G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 .
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