"The Spanish workers' struggle would rouse you from your sleep, rouse you to the horror of reality, rouse you to a realisation of the blood and crime and hopeless misery of capitalism. With closed fists only the anarchists and syndicalists of Spain first walked down the enemy, Fascism."
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Ethel MacDonald, Spain and Trade Unionism, Bellshill Speaker, 19th March 1937, p. 3
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