Red and Black Column explained

Unit Name:Red and Black Column
Native Name:Columna Roja y Negra
Allegiance: CNT
Branch: Confederal militias
Type:Militia
Role:Home defense
Size:1,500
Garrison:Sipan,
Igriés
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Battles:Spanish Civil War


Aragon front

Notable Commanders:García Pradas,
Luis Jiménez Pajarero

The Red and Black Column was the fifth militia column organized by the CNT-FAI in Barcelona to send to the Aragon front. Its incorporation took place in mid-September, in the Province of Huesca as a reinforcement to the anarchist Ascaso and Harriers columns.

According to Alberto Bayo, the contingent formed with "militiamen from the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, a century of foreigners, young people from Estat Català, from the National Confederation of Labor, from the Republican Left of Catalonia, Acció Catalana and the Iberian Anarchist Federation".[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Bayo, My landing in Mallorca , p. 66