«Exhumació de cadàvers»

Foto Lux
1939
Gelatine glass plate
13X18 cm
CRDI. Fons Foto Lux

On 21st July 1936 the government of the Generalitat de Catalunya passed the decree to create the Central Committee of Anti-fascist Militias with the aim of controlling what was happening in the streets. They were armed organizations promoted by the CNT-FAI and made up chiefly of anarcho-syndicalist workers and peasants who in many municipalities became an authentic counterpower to the republican authorities. The actions of these committees have forever been associated with repression and violent action.