The Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth[1] (Spanish: Federación Ibérica de Juventudes Libertarias (FIJL)), sometimes abbreviated as Libertarian Youth (Juventudes Libertarias), is a anarcho-syndicalist[2] organisation created in 1932 in Madrid.[3]
- ^ The FIJL is referred to as the "Iberian Federation of Libertarian Youth" in, inter alia:
- George Richard Esenwein, The Spanish Civil War: a Modern Tragedy, 2005, p 269.
- Alexandre Skirda, Facing the Enemy: a History of Anarchist Organization from Proudhon to May 1968, 2002, p 158.
- Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism, 2010, p 466.
- Graham Kelsey, Anarchosyndicalism, Libertarian Communism, and the State: the CNT in Zaragoza and Aragon, 1930-1937, 1991, p 250.
- ^ José Peirats & Chris Ealham, The CNT in the Spanish Revolution, Volume 2, 2001, p. 76. "The anarchist youth movement had been founded soon after the birth of the Second Republic.... Later, they spread throughout the whole of Spain until they came to represent the third branch of the great libertarian family.... The FIJL had agreed upon the following statement of principles: '...This Association shall strive to invest young people with a libertarian conviction, as to equip them individually to struggle against authority in all its forms, whether in trade union matters or in ideological ones, so as to attain a libertarian social arrangement'"
- ^ Esenwein, p.269