Marc Andreu Acebal

Journalist and historian
Marc Andreu Acebal (Barcelona, 1973) is a historian and journalist. Director of the Centre for Trade Union Studies and Research (CERES) of Catalonia’s CCOO [Trade Union Confederation of Workers’ Commissions], he is also co-director of the magazine Treball and contributor to the newspaper El País, the digital newspaper Crític and the magazines L’Avenç i Sàpiens. Author of Barris, veïns i democràcia. El moviment ciutadà i la reconstrucció de Barcelona [Neighbourhoods, Residents and Democracy. The Citizen Movement and the Reconstruction of Barcelona] (2015) and Les ciutats invisibles. Viatge a la Catalunya metropolitana [Invisible Cities. Journey to Metropolitan Catalonia] (2016).
In recent years he has contributed to the collective works La lluita per una educació en llibertat [The Struggle for Education in Freedom] (2021), Harry Walker: lluita obrera, victòria veïnal [Harry Walker: Working-Class Struggle, Community Victory] (2019) and Clase antes que nación. Trabajadores, movimiento obrero y cuestión nacional en la Barcelona metropolitana [Class before Nation. Workers, the Workers’ Movement and the National Question in Metropolitan Barcelona] (2017).
Articles by Marc Andreu Acebal

Through the book Cròniques del fang [Mud Chronicles], Jaume Fabre pays a fitting tribute to the journalist Josep Maria Huertas Claveria and the...

Does the burning of rubbish bins as a form of protest on the streets of Barcelona correspond to flames of social revolt that evoke the spirit of the Rose of Fire? Or...

Barcelona pròxima, besides bestowing high praise on technocracy, is an urban planning manual, an intellectual biography, a compendium of urban history, a...
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