“at this point the comrade summarised the Makhnovist movement…”

“I am not a miliciano, but I have been to Russia, where I experienced the revolution and was able to observe the way in which the anarchists were liquidated (at this point the comrade summarised the Makhnovist movement). I have been in Spain for the past eight months, and I know that as long as we have weapons in our hands, everything is possible.”

by Sacha Pietro aka Sacha Piotr see http://libcom.org/history/sacha-piotr-sascha-pjotr-aka-alexander-shapiro-aka-sergei-18891890-1942

Taken from the minutes of the Extraordinary assembly of militians, Barcelona, March 1937, as reprinted in The Story of the Iron Column: Militant Anarchism in the Spanish Civil War by Abel Paz. Which has just been copublished by AK Press and the Kate Sharpley Library.

http://www.akpress.org/2011/items/storyoftheironcolumn

The story of the Iron Column by Abel Paz published: a personal view