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During the Spanish civil war, from the spring of 1937 onwards, many anarchists were locked up in prison for political reasons: the revolution is no longer on the agenda. Among the important correspondence from those who called themselves “antifascists prisoners,” I selected letters from two French anarchist men. One, Francis Danon, is a militant of the rearguard, the other, Samuel Kaplan, has struggled on the front line of Aragon. In their letters to the leader of French anarchists in Barcelona, Fernand Fortin, the needs of material and moral help couple with a claim for political recognition: why are they in jail in the republican side? The combination of the themes of material survival and political claim, precise requests and reports of meetings and activism in prison, the sincerity of the scream of those who feel betrayed by their own cause, all this helps us to get the very moment, in the life of these men, when political motivation (or demotivation) is rising.