Agustín Guillamón: Guillamón is an independent historian and author of The Friends of Durruti Group, 1937-39 and The Committees Revolution.

TABLE OF CONTENTSChapter 1: From Shapiro Report to the October 1934 Working Party ResolutionChapter 2: The Local Revolutionary Preparedness CommitteeChapter 3: Differentiating between Defence Groups, Affinity Groups and Action GroupsChapter 4: The Barcelona FAI Critiques the Nosotros Group's Notions of 'Army' and 'Power' (1936)Chapter 5: The Worker Uprising of 19-20 July 1936: The Defence Committees See Off the ArmyChapter 6: The Revolutionary Ward Committees, the People's Militias and the Revolutionary Situation in July 1936Chapter 7: The Assembly-driven Modus Operandi of the Defence and Supplies CommitteesChapter 8: From the CAMC's Military Failure to MilitarisationChapter 9: The Defences Committees, All or Nothing at All. From Potential Organs of Worker Power to Mere Armed Adjuncts of the Trade UnionsChapter 10: The Bread War: Comorera versus the Barrio CommitteesChapter 11: The Barcelona FAI Radicalised by the Defence CommitteesChapter 12: The Defence Committees in May 1937 and their Final DissolutionDocumentary Appendix"The Friends of Durruti Group: To the Working Class" (April 1937)BibliographyAuthor's GlossaryIndex

An armed, clandestine, union committee evolves into the revolutionary vanguard.