** Selected List of Acronyms

** Dedication

** Introduction

*** Acknowledgements

** Chapter One: A rebel youth

*** 1.1 La Vall d’Uixó

*** 1.2 Barcelona

*** 1.3 Collblanc

** Chapter Two: From the street gangs of Barcelona to the anarchist groups (1923–30)

*** 2.1 The forging of a revolutionary

*** 2.2. The affinity group

** Chapter Three: The Second Republic: The split in the anarchist movement and ‘revolutionary gymnastics’ (1931–33)

*** 3.1 The short republican honeymoon

*** 3.2 ‘The university of La Torrassa’

*** 3.3 Radicalisation: The ‘man of action’ in the streets

*** 3.4 The cycle of insurrections’: Internal schism and demoralisation

** Chapter Four: The revolutionary writer (1934–36)

*** 4.1 Public Enemy Number One

*** 4.2 His ‘golden age’ at Solidaridad Obrera

*** 4.3 Anti-fascism, the Popular Front, and dissidence

*** 4.4 The May 1936 Zaragoza Congress

*** 4.5 The revolutionary: The military coup and revolution from below

** Chapter Five: A revolution consumed by war (1936–39)

*** 5.1 The dissident anarchist

*** 5.2 Censure: The triumph of the CNT-FAI leadership

*** 5.3 The war and defeat

** Chapter Six: Exiled: The anarchist nomad in French concentration camps and the Americas (1939–47)

*** 6.1 The Vernet d’Ariège concentration camp

*** 6.2 Penury and exile in the Americas

** Chapter Seven: Exile in France and the struggle against anarchist bureaucracy (1947–65)

*** 7.1 Chief of the ‘Toulouse school of terrorism’

*** 7.2 The brickmaker becomes a historian

*** 7.3 ‘The head of the CNT’ jailed and tortured

*** 7.4 Love and family in exile

*** 7.5 The fight for culture and the unity of the CNT

*** 7.6 Reunification and division

** Chapter Eight: The limits of the ‘New anarchism’ (1965–75)

*** 8.1 The Grupos de Presencia Confederal and the New Left

*** 8.2 The inexorable decline of the CNT in exile

*** 8.3 A restless pen confronts the deep condescension towards the past

** Chapter Nine: The return of the ‘democratic danger’ (1975–89): The rise, splintering, and decline of the CNT after Franco

*** 9.1 Hope

*** 9.2 Disillusionment

*** 9.3 The return to his roots: La Vall d’Uixó (II)

** Conclusion: An indispensable life

** Bibliography

*** Primary Sources

**** Interviews

**** Correspondence

**** Archives

**** Main writings by José Peirats

**** Interviews with José Peirats

**** Writings about José Peirats

**** Press and magazines (from Barcelona unless otherwise noted)

**** Reports, congress minutes, etc., of the anarchist movement

**** Memoirs, testimonies, and contemporary sources

**** Unpublished manuscripts

*** Secondary Sources