Port de la Selva Fishing Cooperative

Description

Natalia Fernandez:

" Port de la Selva, a town organized around a fishing cooperative. The cooperative owned the ships, nets, factories, stores, refrigerators, and transportation vehicles. And not only the production chain, but also the cafe, theater and meeting room – leisure– and a system of social provision, with insurance against death, accident or loss of boats. As Gerald Brenan described it in The Spanish Labyrinth,

Port de la Selva was a libertarian republic in miniature, and was realizing the ideal of all those towns of Catalonia, Andalusia and Castile itself, which, at different times over the past century, had proclaimed their independence and proceeded to divide up the land and issue their own currency." (http://english.lasindias.com/collectivization-and-the-p2p-mode-of-production/)