represented in it. It was also clear victory of communist influence and power in the Spanish Republicans. In popular culture The May Days were reflected in different works written by international participants in the Spanish Civil War. George Orwell's 1938 autobiographical Homage to Catalonia was one of the first works written about the events. The English writer had been a first-hand witness of the events in Barcelona, as he had served in the POUM militias. Similarly, the events are also mentioned in Ted Allan's 1939 novel This Time a Better Earth, which was based on Allan's experiences in Spain. Orwell's work is sympathetic to the POUM, but Allan's novel depicts the perspective that Popular Front members had towards the POUM during the May Days. The May Days were also represented in Spanish works like the novel La plaça del Diamant (The Diamond Square) by the Catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda, which was published in 1962, a work on the history of Natalia, a girl from Barcelona who lives during the Civil War. A film adaptation, The Time of the Doves, was made in 1982. Directed by Francesc Betriu, it is a faithful representation of the novel. Films which portray the May Days events of Barcelona include Memorias del general Escobar (Memories of General Escobar), directed by José Luis Madrid and released in 1984 which tells the story of General Antonio Escobar Huertas and his role during the Spanish Civil War and the Barcelona Events, and In 1995, the English film director Ken Loach's 1995 film Land and Freedom, loosely inspired by Orwell's work. The Spanish Netflix drama Cable Girls (2017) also portrays a dramatization of events of the May Days but is set in Madrid, instead of Barcelona. See also List of Spanish Republican military equipment of the Spanish Civil War Anarcho-syndicalism Notes References Bibliography Aguilera Povedano, Manuel. Compañeros y camaradas. Las luchas entre antifascistas en la Guerra Civil Española. Editorial Actas. Madrid, 2012. La guerra civil mes a mes, Tomo 13. Los sucesos de Barcelona (Mayo de 1937), varios autores, Grupo Unidad Editorial S.A., 2005 (obra completa) (Tomo 13). External links Documents on Barcelona May Days, 1937 from "Trabajadores: The Spanish Civil War Through the Eyes of Organised Labour," Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick. The May Days: Barcelona 1937, Freedom Press, 1987. Felix Morrow, Revolution and Counter Revolution in Spain, ch. 10 Pierre Broué, "The ‘May Days’ of 1937