*** Introduction

** Chapter 1 July 1936

*** On a war footing, proletariat, against the monarchist and fascist conspiracy!

*** Co-ordinating the resistance

*** Class lines drawn

*** The revolutionary general strike

*** The call to arms

*** Companys’s worst nightmares

*** Psychological and strategic objectives

*** The pivotal mistake

*** The question of power

*** The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias

*** Dangers of indulging ‘men of genius’

*** The world turned upside down

*** Law and order

*** ‘For they are all honourable men’

*** Power corrupts

*** The price of political naivety

*** The coup that never was — but should have been!

*** Madrid — July 1936

*** Boundless zeal

*** Zaragoza — a strategic and tragic failure

*** The workers’ militias

*** Military ends and means

*** ‘A New World in our hearts’

*** Zaragoza sacrificed by the Central Committee of the Anti-fascist Militias

*** The fateful halt

*** The Durruti Column

*** Collective support

*** The workers’ victory

*** The Social Revolution

*** War and revolution

*** Collectivisation

*** Equality and freedom

*** Imaginative experiments

*** Land seizures

** Chapter 2 August 1936

*** ‘Our very own’

*** A target for vilification

*** ‘Strangle the life out of fascism’

*** A surrealist writes home

*** War or Revolution?

*** Workers’ and soldiers’ councils

*** The bourgeoisie strikes back

*** More steps towards collaboration

*** Rise and rise of the Spanish Communist Party

*** Breathing space for Stalin

** Chapter 3 September 1936

*** The state rebuilds

*** Problems of war and revolution

*** The Council of the Generalidad

*** The collaborationists win the day

** Chapter 4 October 1936

*** Warning to the ‘uncontrollables’

*** The Council of Aragón

*** Aragón isolated

*** Rolling back the revolution

*** Berneri’s strategy