Author Archive for Sebastiaan Faber

Peter Carroll gives annual Len Crome lecture

March 1, 2012
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Peter Carroll gives annual Len Crome lecture

Peter N. Carroll, ALBA's chair emeritus, will give the annual Len Crome lecture organized by our British friends in the International Brigade Memorial Trust this coming Saturday, March 3, at 2:30pm, at London's Imperial War Museum. Peter will speak on "“The Spanish Civil War in the 21st Century:  From Guernica to Human Rights."...
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Standing ovation for Garzón in Argentine Parliament

March 1, 2012
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Standing ovation for Garzón in Argentine Parliament

Judge Baltasar Garzón, whose career was terminated recently by the Spanish Supreme Court, received a standing ovation from Argentina's Congress as President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner thanked him, on behalf of "millions of Argentines," for his groundbreaking work in defense of human rights (video here.) Garzón's disbarment, President Kirchner said, is "an offense...
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Last German and Scottish volunteers pass on

March 1, 2012
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Last German and Scottish volunteers pass on

Within a couple of days' time, the last surviving German and Scottish volunteers of the Spanish Civil War, Fritz Teppich and Thomas Watters, passed away. Victor Grossman sends us a note on Teppich (below); an obit from Neues Deutschland is here (in German). A BBC obit for Watters is here; a brief...
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Garzón absolved in Francoist crimes case, but still disbarred

February 28, 2012
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Garzón absolved in Francoist crimes case, but still disbarred

In an ostensible attempt to save face, the Spanish Supreme Court absolved Judge Baltasar Garzón yesterday from "prevarication," or knowingly making a decision against the law, in relation to Garzón's opening of an investigation into crimes against humanity committed by the Franco regime during and after the Spanish Civil War (NYTimes, Guardian)....
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James Fernández gives interview about Garzón and NYU

February 28, 2012
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James Fernández gives interview about Garzón and NYU

ALBA's James D. Fernández is interviewed by the Spanish press about the baffling court case around Garzón's stay as holder of NYU's King Juan Carlos I Chair. The case was eventually closed. Read the interview here (in Spanish).
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David Rieff on historical memory

February 18, 2012
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David Rieff on historical memory

The online magazine FronteraD just published a polemical review (in Spanish) by me of a David Rieff's polemical book Against Remembrance. Read it here.
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ALBA’s James Fernández pens Garzón op-ed in El País

February 18, 2012
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ALBA’s James Fernández pens Garzón op-ed in El País

James D. Fernández, vice-chair of ALBA and professor of Spanish at NYU, has an op-ed in today's El País commenting on some of the more Kafkaesque chapters of the witch-hunt against Judge Garzón--and the collateral damage inflicted on those who found themselves in the crossfire. Read the piece here.
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Archive news: Photos now available online

February 16, 2012
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Rickard Jorgensen, who has generously supported the development of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade collection at NYU's Tamiment library, writes: After much work by Mike Nash, Gail Malmgreen,  Elizabeth Compa, Evan Daniel, Laura Helton, Julie Kessle, Porsche Martin and Jessica Weglein, the "Randall: Fifteenth International Brigade Photograph Collection" and the "Photograph International Brigades...
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Guernica remembered

February 15, 2012
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Guernica remembered

The Basque city of Gernika will be commemorating the 75th anniversary of the April 26, 1937 bombing during the Spanish Civil War with a series of events starting this month. See the full program here (pdf).
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Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)

February 15, 2012
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Ronald Fraser (1930-2012)

The historian Ronald Fraser, author Blood of Spain, has died in Spain, where he lived. Blood of Spain, Tariq Ali writes in The Guardian, "is a peerless account of the Spanish civil war, carefully constructed from interviews with participants on both sides":

Conducted with a steady and consistently courteous voice, the...
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