Agrarian conflict in Navarre. Miranda de Arga, 1900-1923: the “comunero” or anticorralicero” party gains municipal power

Abstract

Miranda de Arga met conditions ideal for the outbreak of large-scale conflict. It was subject to significant municipal asset-stripping, land ownership was unequally distributed and control of the local council by the elite favoured cadastral concealment and meant that municipal funds had to bear a considerable debt. With things as they stood, it is no great surprise that protest came in the form that it did. Within a context of intensification of agrarian capitalism, with land as its principal backbone, both “corraliceros” (owners of pastures) and “comuneros” (peasant farmers who worked the land communally) fought to impose, on the one hand, the restriction and, on the other, the universalisation of rights over privatised communal assets...