A Spanish Commune

The previously untold history of a powerful federalist revolution in Spain in 1873 and its links with the colonial and global social protests of its time. The Paris Commune had a little Spanish sister, the Canton of Cartagena, whose impressive and neglected history is unearthed in this book. In July 1873, thousands of men and women proclaimed a Commune, or “Canton”, in the south-eastern Spain military port of Cartagena. Their aim was to build a federal Republic ‘from below’, while refusing to be