, the FJS.
             When Franco's fascist troops invaded Spain on July 17, 1936 to overthrow the young and unstable Republic, the Spanish working class responded by making a revolution that went much further toward realizing the ideal of proletarian socialism than any former popular revolt. Almost overnight, workers seized factories and other workplaces; land was collectivized, and workers' militias were formed throughout the country. The church- an age-old enemy of all working class radicalism and was openly pro-fascist was dismantled, and its property was confiscated. Established political institutions disintegrated or were taken over by workers' committees.
             In a decade of disastrous worldwide depression and spreading fascism, the revolution in Spain gave a message of renewed hope to the scattered forces of working-class emancipation throughout the globe. American intellectuals and unionists responded very favorably. Supporting the workers' revolution were Spain's largest unions. These were the anarcho-syndicalist Confederacion Nacional del Trabaj
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