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[23 juli] ASB Amsterdam: Isaac Puente & Anarcho-Syndicalisme
ASB-Amsterdam - 13.07.2011 15:46
[English below]
ASB Presenteert: Isaac Puente & Anarcho-Syndicalisme
Isaac Puente (1896 - 1936) was één van de voornaamste theoretici van het anarchisme en libertair communisme in Spanje ten tijde van de Spaanse Revolutie. Wij zullen zijn tekst "Libertair Communisme" ( http://libcom.org/library/libertarian-communism) bespreken; deze wordt ingeleid door José Estevao, lid van de Anarcho-Syndicalistische Bond in Amsterdam.
75 jaar na het begin van de Spaanse Revolutie, waar anarcho-syndicalisme een belangrijke rol in speelde, willen we onszelf ook de vraag stellen wat de relevantie van anarcho-syndicalisme vandaag de dag nog kan zijn. Bij de ASB proberen wij van deze traditie te leren en hierop verder te bouwen, maar we willen ook in discussie met nieuwkomers. Hoe strijden en bouwen we hier in Nederland het beste voor een toekomst zonder kapitalisme? En op welke principes moet een toekomstige rechtvaardige samenleving gebaseerd zijn?
(De tekst van Isaac Puente zal die dag ook in flyer-vorm verkrijgbaar zijn.)
http://anarcho-syndicalisme.nl/wp/?p=990
ENGLISH:
ASB presents: Isaac Puente & Anarcho-Syndicalism
Isaac Puente (1896 - 1936) was one of the foremost theoreticians of anarchism and libertarian communism in Spain at the time of the Spanish Revolution. We will discuss his text "Libertarian Communism" ( http://libcom.org/library/libertarian-communism); it will be introduced by José Estevao, a member of the Anarcho-Syndicalist Union (ASB) in Amsterdam.
75 years after the beginning of the Spanish Revolution, in which anarcho-syndicalism played a significant role, we also want to ask ourselves the question what the relevance of anarcho-syndicalism can still be today. In the ASB we try to learn from and build on this tradition, but we would also like to discuss with newcomers. How do we struggle and build in the best way here in the Netherlands for a future without capitalism? And on which principles must such a future just society be based?
(Isaac Puente's text will be available in the form of a flyer during the event.)
 Website: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140753882672131
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A short biography of Spanish anarchist Isaac Puente Arnestoy, who was executed on the dawn of the 1936 Revolution.
Isaac Puente Arnestoy was born in 1896 in Las Carreras, near Vizcaya, in the Basque country in Spain, the son of a Carlist soldier.
He went to a Jesuist school in Orduna and then took up medical studies at Santiago and Valladolid Universities between 1914 and 1918. He started practicing as a doctor in Ciruena in Logrono province and then from 1919 in Maestu in Alava province. He was much appreciated for his work and began to write many articles and small pamphlets under the pseudonym of “A Country Doctor”. From 1923 he began to write for the anarchist press, writing on subjects like birth control and sexuality, first for the Alcoy magazine Generacion Consciente, and then for its successor Estudios, as well as for the Barcelona magazine Etica Iniciales.
He was one of the leading anarchist theoreticians during the Republican period. In 1933 the Peninsula Plenary of the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI) nominated him to write on the concept of libertarian communism. His pamphlets on this theme, above all El Comunismo Libertario, were massively distributed.
He propagandised around birth control, hygiene and sexuality and was much admired for his humanity towards his patients. He linked the problems of health to the need for revolution.
An active militant , he served on the Peninsular Committee of the FAI, on the National Revolutionary Committee of 1933, and was one of the coordinators of the uprising in December in Aragon and La Rioja alongside Buenaventura Durruti, Cipriano Mera, and the Alcrudo brothers. As Miguel Foz, an anarchist who took part in the uprising, noted: “We lived for five days under libertarian communism”.
The uprising was savagely repressed. Puente was one of those arrested and tortured by the police. After 5 months he and other organisers were released due to massive public pressure. This was due to the collapse of the case against them after a raid on the prosecution offices from within the prison!
Puente’s pamphlet was the basis of the positions on libertarian communism formulated by the CNT at the May 1936 Congress in Zaragoza.
The military uprising of 18th July 1936 which started the Civil War took him by surprise as he worked in his Maestu practice. He was arrested and taken to Vitoria. On 1st September he was taken from prison and shot at Pancorbo, near Burgos, along with two young anarchists. Despite having already been summarily executed, he was sentenced to death by a military tribunal at Burgos!
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Wanneer? Zaterdag 23 juli, 15:00 – 17:00 uur
Waar? CREA, Turfdraagsterpad 17, Amsterdam (gelegen op het zogenaamde Binnengasthuisterrein van de Universiteit van Amsterdam). Dichtsbijzijnde tramhalte: Spui
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