Federación Anarquista Ibérica (FAI)

Organisation
Federacón Anarquista Ibérica (F.A.I. - Fédération Anarchiste Ibérique). Founded in 1927; underground organization of Spanish and Portuguese anarchists, for the most part militant members of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT); organized in affinity groups; influential within the CNT during the Second Republic through its revolutionary ideas and the prestige of its dedicated activists including Buenaventura Durruti, Francisco Ascaso, Juan García Oliver and Diego Abad de Santillán; involved in revolutionary uprisings in 1931 and 1933 and in the street fightings of 19th July 1936; legalized during the Civil War; followed the same policy as the CNT, including the acceptance of ministerial responsibility in 1936; formed together with the CNT and the Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias (FIJL) in 1938 the Movimiento Libertario Español (MLE); active in the CNT during the exile period after the Spanish Civil War.
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