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Lessons from Spain’s Mujeres Libres
by Martha Ackelsberg
Fifth Estate # 372, Spring 2006
In 1936, groups of women in Madrid and Barcelona founded Mujeres Libres, an organization dedicated to liberation from their “triple enslavement to ignorance, as women, and as producers.” While it lasted for less than three years (its activities in Spain …