¹ This ties in with my own research in Aragón, and particularly in Zaragoza, where the socialists lost out to a progressive republican current epitomised by Joaquín Costa who represented a far more attractive and authentically radical alternative than the dogmatic small group of socialists.

² It is of interest to note here that an anarchosyndicalist militant, himself regional secretary of the Asturian CNT during the 1930s, Ramón Alvarez, has compiled impressive and well-documented accounts of the lives and activities of both Quintanilla (Eleuterio Quintanilla. Via y obra del maestro (Mexico, 1973))Google Scholar and Mallada, González (Avelino G. Mallada. Alcalde anarquista (Barcelona, 1987)).Google Scholar