Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Oktoba 1934 yankuna na Arewacin Spain sun shafe ta da juyin juya halin juyin juya hali
; Generalitat de Catalunya ya shiga cikin juyin juya halin kuma ya ayyana "Catalan State of the Spanish Federal Republic". 'Yan Anarchists ba su yi komai ba don tallafawa dalilin su; maimakon haka, sun yi aiki don gabatar da nasu anarcho-syndicalist communes. Gwamnatin mai cin gashin kanta ta Generalitat da ERC ke sarrafawa ta yi tir da tsarin anarchist; bayan barkewar tashin hankali, ƙiyayya tsakanin su biyu ya riga ya yi iyaka da ƙiyayya. A lokacin babban zaben na Fabrairu 1936 Anarchists da shakka yanke shawarar tallafawa Popular Front alliance, wanda ya hada da ERC, amma ba da daɗewa ba yarjejeniyar ta ba da damar tashin hankali. A watan Afrilu ƙungiyar Anarchist ta kashe Miquel Badia, wanda a cikin 1934 ya tsara kuma ya aiwatar da kamfen ɗin adawa da CNT. Catalanists da kansu sun karu da rarrabuwa kan manufofin da ke fuskantar gwamnatin tsakiya da hagu na hagu. Mutane da yawa sun soki Generalitat don sasantawa kuma sun bukaci matsayi mafi mahimmanci. A watan Mayu na 1936 Estat Català (EC), ƙungiyar da har yanzu ta kasance wani ɓangare na ERC, ta bar tarayya.