Transcribing the Past

    [CP italienne, de l’Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI) pour les victimes du fascime, photo montrant un groupe de congressistes, lors du congrès constitutif de la nouvelle AIT à Berlin en décembre 1922. De gauche à droite - en haut : Ritter, Hermann - Schuster - Borghi, Armando - Lindstam - Zelm - Dissel, Th.J. au milieu : Orlando - Souchy, Augustin - Schapiro, Alexander - Rocker, Rudolf - Giovannitti, Arturo - Lansink, B. en bas : Severin, Frans - d’Andrea Borghi, Virgilia - Abad de Santillán, Diego. A noter la correspondance d’Armando Borghi adressée à Louis Bertoni.] [Italian CP, of the Unione Sindacale Italiana (USI) for the victims of fascism, photo showing a group of congressmen, during the founding congress of the new AIT in Berlin in December 1922. From left to right - top Ritter, Hermann - Schuster - Borghi, Armando - Lindstam - Zelm - Dissel, Th.J.  au milieu : Orlando - Souchy, Augustin - Schapiro, Alexander - Rocker, Rudolf - Giovannitti, Arturo - Lansink...

        I found this speech given at some point in 1937 by Juan Garcia Oliver while looking for public domain footage of the Spanish Civil War and the years that preceded it. Oliver had joined the CNT Anarcho-syndicalist union in 1919 and in the early 1920s took an active part in the illegal action groups. The groups carried out reprisals for the murder of Anarchists and union members and with the group Los Solidarios Oliver took part in some high profile assassinations. In the 1930s Oliver took part in several abortive insurrections in Catalunya and was in prison until an amnesty in 1936.  During the civil war he oscillated wildly between posts and ideological positions, initially supporting the full implementation of Libertarian Communism and joining a column at the front in Aragon, before being called back to be a CNT representative and later joining the Caballero republican government. During the Mayday's clashes between the Republic and the more revolutiona...