Nosotros (group)

Nosotros (English: Us) was a Spanish anarchist militant group during the period of the Second Spanish Republic in the 1930s. The group was a reorganisation of Los Solidarios, a militant group that had resisted the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera. After the proclamation of the Republic, Nosotros quickly came into conflict with the new government of Spain and provoked a number of insurrections during the early 1930s. Group members were deported following the Alt Llobregat insurrection of January 1932. The group, led by Joan Garcia Oliver, then incited the anarchist insurrection of January 1933. Following the 1933 Spanish general election, the group split over whether to carry out another insurrection, with Garcia Oliver calling for a focus on organisation, while Buenaventura Durruti went to Zaragoza to lead the anarchist insurrection of December 1933.

Many of the group's members were arrested during the Revolution of 1934, but managed to reorganise. They then shifted away from insurrectionary anarchism and began advocating for anarchists to organise, as they believed a civil war was imminent. During the July 1936 military uprising in Barcelona, Nosotros led the anarchist resistance to the coup, culminating in the Spanish Revolution of 1936. Group members then oversaw the organisation of the confederal militias, which participated in the war effort against the Spanish Nationalists.