Archive for October, 2010

New SCW board game

October 4, 2010
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New SCW board game

Jeff McAleer reviews "Popular Front," a new board game developed by Numbskull set during the Spanish Civil War:

Popular Front recreates this conflict in 90-minute strategy game form, leading players to compete against their ideological counterparts not only for military positioning, but for political victory. Players must be...
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New SCW novel

October 4, 2010
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New SCW novel

Ángel Gurría Quintana reviews The Wrong Blood, Manuel de Lope's newly translated Spanish Civil War novel, for the Financial Times:

The Wrong Blood ... is set in the Basque country, near the French border, in what one character calls “the most eccentric corner of Spain”. ... The greatest...
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Historiography of the SCW

October 4, 2010
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How to "create a new historiography of an event that has been saddled with oblivion, repression, ideological baggage, and, now, personal reminiscence"? Ruth MacKay writes in the latest issues of the History Workshop Journal on the Spanish Civil War as a challenge for historians, covering recent developments and polemics:

today something...
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De la Iglesia’s “Balada Triste” in Austin

October 4, 2010
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De la Iglesia’s “Balada Triste” in Austin

Marjorie Baumgarten sees the award-winning new film at FantasticFest:

Amid an epic love story, the film also functions as a parable about the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship, themes that are practically a subgenre of the Spanish cinema. Beginning in 1937, the film opens with a preamble...
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NY1 covers Mexican Suitcase show

October 4, 2010
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NY1 covers Mexican Suitcase show

An article and television report by Stephanie Simon for New York 1 (2-min. video can be viewed here):

"We opened up the boxes, you know, didn't know what to expect. And in fact, there were about 165 rolls of nitrate film, which is highly flammable and combustible. But there...
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Remembering Belfast IBers

October 4, 2010
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Remembering Belfast IBers

Iskra1916 reports on the commemoration of Socialist Spanish Civil War volunteers from Belfast:

the Republican Socialist ex-prisoners group, Teach Na Failte and the Lower Castlereagh Community Development Group, in conjunction with the Consensus Programme, met today for a tour of Read more »

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Spain’s abandonment of universal jurisdiction

October 4, 2010
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"Activist judges like Garzón, Andreu, and Pedraz have created a big diplomatic headache for the Zapatero government." An overview of this past two years' developments at Project Censored: Media Democracy in Action:

In October 2009, under great pressure from the United States, the government of Spain decided to limit its own...
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Lipgloss and landmines: women reporters in Spain and elsewhere

October 4, 2010
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Lipgloss and landmines: women reporters in Spain and elsewhere

A feature in Fabulous magazine on women war journalists, including Martha Gellhorn:

Described by her biographer as a woman who "smoked, drank and travelled with abandon" and used sex to get the best stories, American Martha Gellhorn had an epic career spanning 60 years. She wrote of the human suffering...
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Sam Lesser (1915-2010)

October 3, 2010
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Sam Lesser (1915-2010)

Marlene Sidaway from the International Brigade Memorial Trust writes with sad news (listen to Sam here):

We are very sorry to have to tell you that our much loved and respected Chairman, SAM LESSER (RUSSELL), has died at the age of 95.

Sam was a founding-member...
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