Pacifism in Spain

In the 1930s Spain became a focus for pacifist organisations including the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the War Resisters' International whose president was the British MP and Labour Party leader George Lansbury. Prominent Spanish pacifists such as Amparo Poch y Gascón and José Brocca supported the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.^[1] Brocca argued that Spanish pacifists had no alternative but to make a stand against what he viewed as fascism. He put this stand into practice by various means including organising agricultural workers to maintain food supplies and through humanitarian work with war refugees.

Pacifism was proscribed in Francoist Spain,^[1] and several Spanish pacifists, such as the Tolstoyan Esteban Pallarols (1900–1946), were executed by the regime.^{[2][not specific enough to verify]}

See also

• Insubordinate movement in Spain

References

1. Peter Brock; Nigel Young (1999). Pacifism in the Twentieth Century. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. pp. 96–7, 311. ISBN 0-8156-8125-9. OCLC 41014224.
2. Pere Anguera, Los días de España, Asociación de Historia Contemporánea, 2003 (p. 159).

Further reading

• Bennett, Scott H. (2003). Radical Pacifism: The War Resisters League and Gandhian Nonviolence in America, 1915-1963 (1st ed.). Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press. ISBN 9780815630289. OCLC 934411849.
• Brown, Herbert Runham (1936). Spain: A Challenge to Pacifism (1st ed.). Enfield, England: War Resisters' International/ Finsbury Press. OCLC 493303255.
• Hunter, Allan Armstrong (1939). White Corpuscles in Europe. Willett, Clarke and Company. OCLC 576927435. OL 6399581M.
• Prasad, Devi (2005). War is a Crime Against Humanity. London: War Resisters' International. ISBN 0903517205. OCLC 62520834.