Author Archive for Peter N. Carroll

Book Review: The Psycho-Brigadista

November 18, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> The Psycho-Brigadista

The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune, by Alexander Stille. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. 432 pp.
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Letter from ALBA: Goosebump Moments

November 18, 2023
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Goosebump Moments

Dear Friends, ALBA connects generations. We see this in our Watt essay contest, which showcases the passionate fascination with which high schoolers, undergrads, and graduate students engage with the legacy of the International Brigades. We see it in the touching video testimonies that grandchildren of vets have been sending us in response to our...
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Letter from ALBA: Antifascism, Education, and Labor

August 30, 2023
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Letter from ALBA: Antifascism, Education, and Labor

Dear Friends, The three threads running through this issue are directly linked to ALBA’s mission and history. The first thread underscores how important it is to identify fascism wherever it shows up—and to face it head-on. We don’t have to explain to you why that is particularly important today. “We can no longer teach...
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Letter from ALBA: On Confusion and Clarity

May 18, 2023
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> On Confusion and Clarity

The present is confusing because we don’t know what the future will look like. Still, some things are crystal clear.
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Book Review: Black Soldiers in World War II

February 17, 2023
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<em>Book Review:</em> Black Soldiers in World War II

Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad. By Matthew F. Delmont. Viking, 2022, 374 pp.
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Letter from ALBA: Building Anti-Fascist Alliances Then and Now

February 17, 2023
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Building Anti-Fascist Alliances Then and Now

The fight against fascism, in all its guises, has always required broad alliances: networks of people and organizations who realize that the threat to democracy is dangerous enough to warrant collective action, even if not everyone sees eye to eye on everything. This is why, two years after Hitler’s rise to power, the Popular...
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Letter from ALBA: The Education Battlefront

November 18, 2022
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> The Education Battlefront

Dear Friends, “There are now states in this country where this document cannot be taught,” a teacher remarked pointedly at one of the two workshops we taught in November. We were discussing a letter sent from civil-war Spain by Canute Frankson, a Jamaican-born mechanic who in April 1937 left his home in Detroit to...
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Sister Andrea Sender (1936-2022)

August 18, 2022
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Sister Andrea Sender (1936-2022)

Sister Benedicta (aka Andrea Sender), daughter of the celebrated Spanish novelist Ramón J. Sender, who lived in exile in the United States from Franco’s fascist regime, died on June 11. Her parents—Ramón, the prize-winning novelist, and his wife, Amparo Barayón—were strong opponents of the uprising in 1936. At the outbreak of the war, her...
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Letter from ALBA: Keeping Our Ear to the Ground

August 18, 2022
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Keeping Our Ear to the Ground

Dear Friends, Putting together a quarterly magazine is a surefire way to make time fly. As this issue goes to print, your editors are already thinking about the next one, approaching authors, agreeing on word counts, setting deadlines—before we know it, another three months have passed. Since we last wrote, the US Supreme Court...
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Two Poems

May 20, 2022
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Two Poems

"His Knee" and "The Spectrum"
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