Confederal Militia | |
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Milicias confederales de la CNT-FAI | |
Active | 1934–1937 |
Disbanded | 1937 |
Country | Spanish Republic |
Allegiance | CNT-FAI |
Branch | Spanish Republican Army |
Type | People's Militia |
Role | Home defense |
Size | 50,000 |
Colors | Red and Black |
Engagements | Revolution of 1934 Spanish Civil War |
Commanders | |
Durruti Column | Buenaventura Durruti |
South Ebro Column | Antonio Ortiz Ramírez |
Ascaso Column | Cristóbal Alvaldetrecu, Gregorio Jover, Domingo Ascaso |
Harriers Column | Miguel García Vivancos, Juan García Oliver |
Iron Column | José Pellicer Gandía |
Land and Freedom Column | Germinal de Souza |
Rosal Column | Francisco del Rosal Rico, Cipriano Mera |
The confederal militias were a movement of people's militia during the Spanish Civil War organized by the Spanish anarchist movement: the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI). The CNT militias replaced clandestine defense committees instituted earlier. As the war progressed, the militias were progressively dissolved and assimilated into the Spanish Republican Army, in spite of many militiamen refusing the militarization.