Adoratrices, convent of the, 157
agriculture
and collective action, 59–60, 67–8, 160, 196–7
see also land reform
Alcalá Zamora, Niceto, 43, 93, 108, 127, 178, 197
Alfonso XIII, King, 7, 8, 42, 151
Alianza Obrera, see Workers’ Alliance
Aller, 23, 27, 32, 43, 54, 58, 62, 63, 77, 83, 90, 91, 104, 105, 113, 170, 185, 194, 201–2, 206
anarchism, 7, 9, 31–2, 35, 52, 88, 103, 115, 121, 124–5, 161, 184
and Communism, 32, 36, 37, 71–4, 99, 134–5
in October 1934, 131, 132, 134, 135, 143, 144, 145, 150
and the Republic, 44–5, 66, 205
and socialism, 31, 37, 56, 71–4, 80–1, 95, 99, 176
see also CNT, SUM; unity; Workers’ Alliance
Andalusia, 24, 25, 26, 40, 46, 73, 75, 95, 131, 196, 197, 214
anticlericalism, 33, 34, 38–9, 40, 43, 46, 72, 75, 76, 77, 79, 101, 165
and intra-left rivalry, 36, 71, 73–4, 187
and October 1934, 139–40, 141, 142, 143
and violence, 2, 37, 46, 79, 80, 102, 112–13, 126, 200–1
Antuña, Graciano, 81, 163, 177, 195
Arboleya, Maximiliano, 32, 171
arms, 121, 126, 132, 134, 148, 153, 160, see also searches
and military manoeuvres, 169, 179
and right-wing politics, 168–9
and repression of October 1934, 154, 157
role in October 1934, 133, 134, 150, 151
see also colonial warfare
Assault Guard, 66, 93, 110, 112, 124, 126, 140, 153, 194, 200, 202–3, 207
Asturias
geography of, 20–1
identity of, 19–20, 166–7, 180, 181, 215
Ateneos, 33–4, 37, 39, 101, 107, 116, 162
Uprising, February 1934, 2, 108, 113
Avance, 15, 94, 95–6, 114, 119, 214
Ayuntamientos, see municipal politics
Azaña, Manuel, 43, 103, 175, 176, 185, 197, 207
Barcelona, 1, 7, 26, 53, 61, 62, 63, 80, 115, 131, 139, 155
bars, 23, 34, 35, 39, 101, 114, 126, 162, 163, 164, 184, 190, 199
Basque Country, 21, 40, 83, 108, 131, 155, 209
Besteiro, Julián, 44, 104, 127, 175
Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente, 34
BOC (Workers’ and Peasants’ Bloc), 44, 115, 117, 134–5
‘Bolchevization’, 176–8, 188, 189, see also USSR
Britain, 21, 82, 98, 99, 107, 121–2
mining communities in Wales and north-east England, 22, 27, 41, 68–9, 83, 90
Bueno, Javier, 15, 34, 119, 120
burning, as a form of collective action, 42, 46, 106, 107, 125, 135, 139, 154, 161
Cabañaquinta, 78
Carbones Asturianos, 92
Carbones La Nueva, 36, 92, 140
Carlism, 40, 45, 100, 183, 198
Casas del Pueblo, 28, 29, 62, 69, 101, 112, 154, 161, 186
Catalonia, 7, 21, 62, 115, 116, 131, 158
see also Barcelona
Catholicism, 19, 26, 32, 39–40, 41, 45, 73, 108–9, 124, 125, 139–40, 143, 166, 171–2, 184, 202
Church-state relations, 3, 46, 53–4, 72, 74, 79, 80, 108, 170, 187
and community, 39–40, 77, 79, 201, 210
Holy Week, 40, 77, 108, 112, 201
mobilization in defence of, 47, 75–6, 102, 125, 202
relationship to fascism, 100, 101, 201
see also Adoratrices, convent of the; anticlericalism; Arboleya, Maximiliano; CEDA; cemeteries; Christian Doctrine, Brothers of the; crucifixes, Dominicans; secularism
CEDA (Confederation of Autonomous Right-Wing Groups), including AP (Popular Action), 45–6, 47, 102–3, 104–5, 125, 143, 158, 160, 171, 183, 184, 185, 190, 201
and fascism, 100–1
and government office, 108, 109, 127, 131, 172–3
position towards the Republic, 45, 178, 185, 197–9
women’s activism in, 47, 76, 102
see also Gil Robles, José María; JAP
cencerradas, 76
censorship, 119, 167, 179, 207, 214
chamiceros, 58–61
Chaves Nogales, Manuel, 129, 152
Christian Doctrine, Brothers of the, 40, 91, 141
Ciaño-Santa Ana, 28, 35, 39, 75, 88, 186
civil governor, 52, 56, 64–5, 72, 76–7, 78, 119, 125, 126, 161, 187, 193, 200, 202
mediating role, 55, 67, 78, 123–4
and policing, 110–11, 113, 172, 178, 179, 204
Civil Guard, 65–7, 69, 93, 94, 105, 124, 125, 157, 159, 170, 199, 200, 206
in October 1934, 132, 140, 142
relationship with the municipal authorities, 65, 66, 68
relationship with the working class, 52–3, 58, 65, 68, 110, 123, 163–4, 189, 193, 194
see also Assault Guard; policing
Civil War, Spanish, 1, 139, 140, 148, 157, 175, 181, 209–10
coal industry
comparisons of Asturias to other coal-producing areas, 21, 83
employment in, 22, 30, 57, 83, 85–6, 96, 109, 195
role of women, 22
colonial warfare, 114, 155, see also army
Committee in Aid of Working-Class Children, 174
Communist Party of Spain (PCE), 32, 58, 99, 107, 115, 135, 176, 186, 205
and anarchism, 37, 71–4, 117, 134–5
identity, 37, 38–9, 73, 188, 193
position towards the Republic, 44–5, 176, 184, 205
and socialism, 35–6, 37, 71–4, 80–1, 103, 117, 118, 134–5, 176
see also SUM; unity; USSR; Workers’ Alliance
Communist Youth, 32, 124, 148, 188, 202, see also Socialist Youth – JSU
community, 28, 36, 41, 77, 123, 134–5, 136, 140, 141, 147–50, 162, 163, 210–1
approaches to, 13–14
collective action, role in, 14, 49, 50, 52, 124, 141
fracturing of, 164, 189–90, 192
and self-governance, 41–2, 52–3, 68, 110–11, 212, 214
understandings of, 40, 41, 79, 100, 101, 102, 104–5, 135, 138, 148–9, 185–6
CNT (National Confederation of Labour), 31, 37, 55, 56, 63, 93, 104, 115, 172, 186, 205
see also anarchism; SUM; unity; Workers’ Alliance
democracy, 8, 37, 82, 87, 102, 211
and the Second Republic, 3, 47, 94, 105, 122, 159, 198, 212
and workplace assemblies, 36–7, 90
demonstrations, 46, 49, 50, 66–7, 76, 91, 110, 112, 120, 123, 181, 200, 204
denunciation, 77, 163–4, 179, 191, 194
Díaz Fernández, José alias José Canel, 168
Doval, Lisardo, 65–6, 157, 164–5, 166
Duro-Felguera, 21, 56, 78, 80, 84, 95, 143, 159
Extremadura, 24–5, 61, 66–9, 110, 131, 196
Fábrica de Mieres, 21, 51, 84, 87–8, 159
FAI (Iberian Anarchist Federation), see Anarchism
Falange Española, see FE-JONS
fascism, 97, 98–100, 106, 126–7, 152–3, 194, 198, 201–2, 207
and October 1934, 142, 143, 149, 177
resistance to, 101–2, 106–8, 116, 199
understandings of, 99–102, 107, 122–3, 126–7
see also FE-JONS
FE-JONS, 45, 99, 142, 183, 184, 185
and the wider political right, 100, 198
and violence, 106, 109, 199, 201
La Felguera, 19, 22, 31, 32, 35, 78, 95, 100, 117, 132, 137, 150, 161, 162, 191
Fernández, Amador, 86, 116, 125, 186
Figaredo, 83
FJS (Federation of the Socialist Youth), see Socialist Youth
FNTT (National Federation of Landworkers), 31, 119, 196
Foreign Legion, 133, 152, 154–5, 179
France, 2, 29, 66, 82, 89, 98, 101, 107, 115, 127, 173, 175, 176, 181, 186
Franco, Francisco, 133, 155, 178, 184
FSA (Asturian Socialist Federation), see Socialist Workers’ Party, Spanish
Galicia, 26, 75–6, 117, 200, 209
Germany, 63, 82, 83, 86, 101, 107, 154, 158
Berlin, 5, 11, 60, 68, 101, 153, 190
as a reference point, 114, 123
Gijón, 20, 22, 31, 36, 47, 62, 65, 76, 114, 132, 134, 144, 171, 174, 185, 198, 209
Gil Robles, José María, 46, 100, 108, 169, 193, 178, 184–5, 198
Giménez Fernández, Manuel, 173, 197
González Peña, Ramón, 33, 44, 113–14, 125, 173, 177, 181
gossip, 28, 73, 105–6, 172, see also denunciation; rumours
Hulleras del Turón, 26, 78, 83, 84, 91, 141
housing, 26, 28, 61–2, 160, see also tenant activism
Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI), see FAI
imprisonment, 110, 119–20, 195, 206
after October 1934, 153, 155, 157, 156, 158, 161, 164, 175, 181, 186
during October 1934, 140, 141, 144, 150
intimacy, 18, 35–6, 73, 76, 105–6, 112, 149, 163, 190, 214
identity cards, 159–60
IR (Republican Left), 175–6, 182, 184, 197, 202
JAP (Popular Action Youth), 100, 124–5, 126, 171, 198
JC (Communist Youth), see Communist Youth
Jiménez de Asúa, Luis, 199, 201
Jove y Canella, José María, 23, 27, 34
JSU (United Socialist Youth), see Socialist Youth
justice
and the Republic, 47, 49, 50, 51, 52, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 69, 186
popular, 110, 111 140, 190, 191, 192
see also community
Lafuente, Aida, 148
Langreo, 26, 27, 33, 37, 42, 47, 53, 54, 68, 80, 91, 92, 108, 112, 132, 160, 170, 185, 186, 192
Largo Caballero, Francisco, 8, 9, 44, 55, 56, 92, 104, 166, 176
and Indalecio Prieto, 175, 177, 197
and rhetoric, 93–4, 95, 113, 205
and the Second Republic, 93–4, 127
and Workers’ Alliances, 116
Laviana, 27, 34, 38, 42, 52, 57, 62, 68, 75, 83, 104, 110–1, 136, 160, 185, 199
Lejárraga García, Maria de la O alias María Martínez Sierra, 174
Lerroux, Alejandro, 43, 93, 127, 133, 166, 178, see also Radical Party
Llano Roza de Ampudia, Aurelio de, 168
looting, 134, 136, 150, 155, 163
López Ochoa, Eduardo, 133, 150, 154, 158
Madrid, 26, 46, 80, 99, 120, 129, 148, 155, 166, 175, 177, 194, 196, 200, 208
Madera Peña, Vicente, 33, see also SCOM
Manning, Leah, 155
Manzano, Veneranda, 174
MAOC (Antifascist Workers’ and Peasants’ Militias), 132, 193
Martínez Barrio, Diego, 93, 111, 176
Menéndez, Teodomiro, 131, 144, 173, 188
Mieres, municipal district (concejo), 22, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 42, 44, 47, 51, 54, 55, 65, 73, 79, 81, 85, 88, 91, 92, 113, 185
in October 1934, 132, 134, 136, 137, 138
Mieres, town, 38, 42, 62, 63, 64, 76, 112, 116, 117, 125, 161, 162, 181, 190
in October 1934, 140, 141, 142, 147, 150
militias, 45, 120, 121, 129, 158, 182, 193, 194, 203–4, 206
in October 1934, 132, 134, 140, 142, 147, 148, 149
Mineworkers’ Union of Asturias (SOMA), see SOMA
Mineworkers’ Single Union (SUM), see SUM
mixed workers, 24
moral economy, 59–60
municipal authorities, 42–3, 47, 53, 58, 67, 68, 97, 110, 112, 167, 170–1
and the Republic, 50–3, 108–9, 187
mediating role of, 51, 55–6, 57, 64, 112
and secularization, 53–4, 78–9, 80, 91, 187
substitution after October 1934, 160–1
reinstatement in 1936, 186–7
relationship with mining companies, 51, 92
National Confederation of Labour (CNT), see CNT
Octubre: Segunda etapa, 177
Olloniego, 81, 108, 143, 147, 148, 151, 156
Oviedo, 1, 20, 26, 33, 34, 47, 49, 62, 63, 91, 94, 98, 105, 106, 107, 120, 121, 157, 160, 165, 166, 168, 169, 172, 177, 181, 186, 187, 188, 191, 193, 195, 200, 202–3, 204, 205, 206, 208, 209
in October 1934, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 140, 141, 144, 148, 149, 150, 154–5
paramilitarism, 119, 120, 121–2, 132, 179, 192–4, 204, see also arms; militias
paternalism, 26–7, 62, see also schools
PCE, see Communist Party of Spain
Pérez Galdós, Benito, 34
petitioning, 47, 50, 54, 58, 75, 78, 189, 195
Pola de Laviana, 64, 105, 110–1, 135, 151, 184, 204
policing (informal, of community), 3, 14, 41, 73, 76–7, 101–2, 105, 148–50, 164, 184, 188–94, 199, 203, 206, see also violence
policing (formal, by the security forces), 52, 64–8, 93, 110–3, 123, 124, 125, 156, 169, 202–3, 212
and paramilitarism, 121–2
resistance to, 65, 110, 113, 123–4, 203–4
see also Assault Guard; Civil Guard; searches
Popular Action, see CEDA
Popular Front, 176, 182–3, 204–5
POUM (Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification), 182, see also BOC
Prieto, Indalecio, 44, 104, 125, 175, 177, 197, 207
Primo de Rivera, José Antonio, 100, 184, 198–9, 201
Primo de Rivera, Miguel, 7–8, 30, 31, 32, 55, 65, 81, 83
PRLD (Liberal-Democratic Republican Party), 103, 104, 105, 143, 160, 173, 183, 185, 200
PSOE, see Socialist Workers’ Party, Spanish
public opinion, 41–2, 73, 138, 145–6, 172, 189, 190
purges, 153, 159, 160–1, 187, 188, 189, 191
Radical Party, 43, 93, 95, 103, 108, 160, 173, 176, 178, 184
radicalism, 3, 8–13, 59–60, 88, 91, 94, 96, 114, 129–30, 189, 194–5, 205, 207, 211–12, 213–14
and the interwar period, 4–5, 11–12, 98
and intra-left rivalry, 73, 80–1
and local politics, 81–2, 92, 94, 105–6
and mining communities, 12–13
and political mediation, 113, 123–4
and the politics of action, 86–7, 120–2, 202, 206
and rhetoric, 80, 81, 82, 87, 93–6, 114, 119, 192, 195, 204
radicalization, see radicalism
Red Army, 144–5
Renovación Española, 45, 183, 198, 207
Republic, Second, 3, 8, 42–6, 55, 74, 93, 104, 108–9, 173, 178, 197–8
meanings of, 3, 49, 52, 59, 64, 112, 129–30, 135, 170, 202, 206, 209–10, 211–12, 214
and a ‘social republic’, 94–5, 206
see also justice
Republicans, left, 43, 103, 104 see also IR, UR
repression (of October 1934), 152, 154–6, 157–8, 165, 179
curfews and restrictions on movement, 161
solidarity initiatives for the victims of, 173–4
see also Carbayín; colonial warfare; identity cards; imprisonment; purges; torture; unemployment
Revolution, in October 1934, 1–2
and authority, 135, 140–1, 150
and fake news, 145–6
and gender, 147–8
and identity, 146–7, 148–9, 167–8, 187
proclamations in, 16, 137–9, 145–6, 150
revolutionary characteristics of, 136, 137–8, 144–5
and violence, 2, 129, 132–3, 135–6, 139–43, 149–50
and youth, 147
see also Red Army; repression
Riego, Rafael del, 141–2
Rodríguez Arango, Rafael, 140
rumours, 79, 85, 86, 110, 112, 145, 157, 162, 169, 178, 189, 190, 206, 207, see also gossip
Salamanca, 46, 74, 77, 109, 185, 196
Salazar Alonso, Rafael, 111, 122
Sama de Langreo, 35, 38, 42, 52, 62, 76, 81, 91, 94, 112, 123–4, 137, 138, 141, 142, 150, 161, 162, 171, 184, 188, 193, 199, 203, 206
San Martín del Rey Aurelio, 23, 26, 27, 28, 30, 34, 35, 42, 58, 75, 78, 82, 89, 90, 102, 126, 132, 185, 186, 193
Sanjurjo coup, 79, 94, 140, 211
SCOM (Catholic Mineworkers’ Union), 32–3, 105, 133, 159, 171, 172, 184
searches
frisking, 110, 124, 125, 126, 179, 192–3, 194, 212
of homes and political centres, 111– 2, 113, 114, 125–6, 179, 206
secularism, 40, 46, 53–4, 74, 75, 76–8, 79, 80, 170, 187
Siero, 86, 136, 138, 189, 191, 200, 206
Sirval, Luis, 152
socialism, 5–6, 23, 30, 34, 55, 57, 67, 80, 82, 91, 96, 101, 104, 110, 115, 116, 119, 164, 168, 173, 174, 177, 178, 179, 188, 192, 205, 206
and anarchism, 36, 37, 56, 71–4, 88, 95, 99, 116, 134–5
and Communism, 35–6, 37, 71–4, 80–1, 87, 88, 99, 103, 116, 134–5
identity, 35, 38, 73, 106, 202, 204
international consciousness, 107, 108, 114, 194–5
membership, 87
origins in Asturias, 26–7, 28–9
in October 1934, 121, 131, 132, 136, 143, 144
preparation of October 1934, 10, 96, 104, 120, 125, 126
see also Casas del Pueblo; Socialist Workers’ Party, Spanish; SOMA; unity; Workers’ Alliance
Socialist Workers’ Party, Spanish (PSOE), 8, 30, 89, 120, 123, 125, 199
internal frictions, 175, 188, 197
in municipal government, 42–3, 51, 52, 54, 58, 68, 74, 80, 92, 111, 112
relationship with Republicans, 95, 103, 176
and the Second Republic, 8, 42, 43–4, 72, 93–5, 102, 103–4, 127, 129–30, 182, 184, 197
see also ‘Bolchevization’; Socialism; Socialist Youth
Socialist Youth (JS), 73, 76, 82, 87, 93, 95, 104, 107, 109, 118, 120, 121, 122, 130, 175, 191, 193, 204
and ‘Bolchevization’, 176–8, 188, 189
Federation of (FJS), 87, 116, 120, 121
as United Socialist Youth (JSU), 188–9
see also youth
Sociedad Hullera Española (SHE), 21, 27, 32, 62, 65, 78, 106, 159, 171
SOMA (Mineworkers’ Union of Asturias), 38, 44, 87–8, 89, 105, 116, 124, 160, 161, 163, 171, 190, 195
before 1931, 29–31
leadership, 33, 57, 92, 186, 195
and moderation, 30, 57–8, 81–2, 84–5, 96
rebelliousness within, 57, 84, 86, 88, 90, 96, 118
SRI (International Red Aid), 167, 173–4, 194, 195
steel industry, 21, 22, 31, 56, 159, 186
Straperlo affair, 178
strikes, 5, 6, 9, 36, 50, 54, 56–8, 78, 83–4, 95, 108, 110, 113, 118, 124, 126, 129, 161, 171, 172
general, 7, 56, 84–5, 87, 92, 125, 133, 195, 203
socialist attitudes towards, 58–9, 81, 84–5, 118, 130
wildcat, 30, 55, 57, 85, 86, 87–8, 112, 113, 118, 119
outside of Asturias, 62, 67, 91, 109, 110, 119, 131, 196, 198
SUM (Mineworkers’ Single Union), 31–2, 35, 56, 57, 118, 171, 188, see also anarchism; CNT
Tomás, Belarmino, 80, 125, 129, 142–3, 150, 154
Torre, Matilde de la, 123–4, 174, 179
torture, 65, 155–6, 167, 179, 194
Trubia, 33, 49, 52, 63, 105, 106, 132, 146, 192
Turón, 20, 26, 33, 35, 37, 62, 73, 76, 79, 81, 89, 95, 126, 145, 156, 163, 171, 172
Turquesa, La, 125
unemployment, 9, 38, 41, 57, 58, 85, 109, 186–7, 196
international comparisons, 83
after October 1934, 159, 161–2
and youth, 85–6
symbolism in October 1934, 144–5, 146–7
uniforms (paramilitary), 120, 121, 122, 179
unity, 103, 114–18, 124, 125, 205
and grassroots initiatives, 88–9, 115–16, 117
and union leadership, 88
see also Workers’ Alliance
UGT (General Workers’ Union), 9, 29, 30, 31, 55, 90, 95, 104, 120, 172, 179
UR (Republican Union), 175–6, 182, 184
Vidarte, Juan Simeón, 175
Violence, 56, 67, 79, 91, 92, 93, 106–7, 109, 112, 114, 123, 125, 126, 139–43, 154, 156–9, 164, 182, 183–4, 198, 199–204, 206, see also anticlericalism; army; Assault Guard; Civil Guard; repression; revolution, in October 1934; torture
Women Against War and Fascism, 174
Workers’ Alliance, 10, 31, 114–18, 124, 134–5, 160, 205, see also unity
Yagüe, Juan, 133
youth, 23, 32, 33, 39, 41, 57, 73, 75, 76, 85, 86–7, 100, 102, 107, 109, 112, 120, 121, 122, 124, 170, 171, 188, 202
in October 1934, 130, 134, 147, 148
see also unemployment, Communist Youth, Socialist Youth
yunteros, 196–7