The soccer World Cup opens this Friday in South Africa. Spain, reigning European champion, is starting off as one of the favorites. But a lot is riding on the national team's potential success, the New York Times reports today. A cup would help ease--or at least distract from--the country's economic woes.
The International Criminal Court is in the midst of its 2010 review conference. One of the topics of discussion is the possibility of increased U.S. cooperation with the Court in The Hague. Recent developments in Spain have further complicated the picture, European Affairs editor Bill Marmon writes in a detailed analysis:
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French paper Le Monde interviewed Juan Salas on his discovery of With the Lincoln Brigade in Spain, the long-lost Spanish Civil War documentary by Henri Cartier-Bresson (videoclip here).
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Associations of victims and their descendants decry the fact that, in spite of the provisions of the so-called Historical Memory Law of December 2007, access to Spanish military archives--which, among other things, hold information on Francoist trials--continues to pose serious problems to researches and family members. Part of the problem--Público reports--is a...
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Local amateur historian Michael Muñoz has uncovered the roots of farm workers' organized labor in the activism of Spanish emigrants who, via Hawaii, ended up in Vacaville, California in the early 1930s. A video presentation here.
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During the last weekend of May, the national organizations of friends of International Brigade veterans (Coordinación Internacional de Asociaciones de amigos de los combatientes en la España republicana, or ACER) met in Paris, among other things to plan a series of events to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the International Brigades in...
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In its online Memorial Day slide show last week, The Nation included an image of Republican troops marching in Madrid (image 4), and a letter from a Lincoln Brigader that the magazine published in 1937.
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A video of a talk by biographer Irme Schaber on Gerda Taro, the Spanish Civil War photographer who worked with Robert Capa and died in Spain, and whose images will be part of the "Mexican Suitcase" exhibit at the ICP this fall.
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Forced as a child to live with her aunt, Conxa toils the harsh farmland of the Pyrenees, finding love in the form of local builder, Jaume, until his involvement with the Communist revolutionaries threatens her hard-won security.
As lapidary as its title suggests, this is a book of muted emotions. Conxa’s world is one in...
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The website of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives has just had a facelift. Check out the new look and improved navigation, including the ALBA Digital Library...
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Teesside, an industrial region in Northeast England that in the nineteenth century grew to be a center of shipbuilding and iron and steel production, spawned no fewer than thirty International Brigade volunteers. Of the nine who were born in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, moreover, six played leading roles in Spain: five rose to the rank of Lieutenant...
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The first thirty-six Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for Phase IV were submitted December 30, 2024. Phase IV is intended to focus on volunteers on whom we have minimal information. At some point in the future, I plan to resubmit some volunteers who were returned as not found or on whom no information...
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My grandfather (Nana), Suresh, moved to the United States in 1959 as a young man on a student visa pursuing his master’s degree. His parents, my great grandparents, sought value in being ‘foreign educated’ and bringing his education home – to Mumbai, India to run their family business. 2 years after my Nana moved...
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Peter N. Carroll, a respected and prolific writer, poet, and US historian, died after a short illness on September 16, surrounded by his family. He was 80. Born in New York City in 1943 to a secular Jewish family, Peter grew up in the Bronx and Queens, where his father worked as a composer,...
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LA RÉPUBLIQUE -QUOTIDINEN DE COMBAT RADICAL ET SOCIALISTE, February 5, 1938 Foreign Volunteer Arrested On March 27 last, 29 North Americans were arrested on board the boat Sans-Pareil while they were attempting to reach the Spanish Coast. They were sentenced to a prison term for violating the decree of February 18, 1937 on the...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The Spanija series translates select autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google Translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatioan or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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Peter Verburgh’s translation from the French Newpaper Le Journal about a group of 29 Americans arrested in France. “29 American Volunteers Arrested in Muret” Le Journal, 5 April 1937 Toulouse, 4 April- The Control services of the Non-Intervention Committee do not remain inactive, especially with the help of the French Police and Gendarmerie. Thus...
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ALBA Board Member Steve Birnbaum made the trek on Memorial Day to the Home of Eternity Cemetary in Oakland, California to pay tribute to ALB veteran Hans Joachim. Joachim was born in Berlin, Germany in 1906 and moved to the US in 1924. He served in Spain with the George Washington Battalion and later...
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Please find attached photos of my visits to the graves of Lester Rowlson and Tersil Obriot last weekend. I left a brigade flag and a fresh white rose at each. ,,, I was also proud to include aspects of my Clapton CFC scarf; you might have heard of this small football club in London that...
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ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
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