Village Against the World

Name: Village Against the World
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ISBN: 9781781682982

ISBN-10: 1781682984

ISBN-13: 9781781682982

Edition: 2014

Authors: Dan Hancox

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The land belongs to those who work it--""La tierra es de quien la trabaja.""One hundred kilometers from Seville, there is a small village, Marinaleda, that for the last thirty years has been at the center of a long struggle to create a communist utopia. In a story reminiscent of the Asterix books, Dan Hancox explores the reality behind the community where no one has a mortgage, sport is played in the Che Guevara stadium and there are monthly "Red Sundays" where everyone works together to clean up the neighbourhood. In particular he tells the story of the village mayor, Sanchez Gordillo, who in 2012 became a household name in Spain after leading raids on local supermarkets to feed the…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 6/3/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.77" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Dan Hancox is a freelance writer whose work on music and politics appears in the Guardian, New Statesman, Prospect, Q Magazine and the National, among others. He is the author of My Fellow Americans and the editor of the free ebook Fight Back! A Reader on the Winter of Protest.