Utopia Productions based in Guillena, Andalucía has produced a CD of a live concert performed by the 24-year old Andalusian singer-songwriter, Lucía Sócam. She lends her voice to those who were forced to remain silent for so many years. All 18 songs are based on testimony by different people who tried to save the...
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The Spanish Civil War exhibit at the International Center of Photography was the covered today by The World from National Public Radio and Public Radio International. Images, background details here. Listen to the segment here.
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Dr. Venturino Giorgio Venturini, the retired Italian jurist and Spanish Civil War researcher, provides a very detailed overview of Garzón's career and cases brought against him in CounterCurrents:
During an examination of Spain 's human rights record in May this year at the UN Human Rights Council, Mexico asked...
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Spain Art Fest ´10 takes place in the iconic Times Square presenting a selection of works by Spanish artists living in New York City. The Festival will feature performance, sound, multimedia projections and site-specific installations that will interact with thousands of passersby bridging art, technology and culture. The works will immerse themselves into Times...
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This past May Javier Nuñéz, reporting for Deia, interviewed Ludivina García and Ceferino Álvarez (who passed away in August), of the Association of Descendents of Spanish Civil War exiles, on the the Garzón case and the quality of Spanish democracy.
When asked what they thought about Garzón being debarred...
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The Morning Star has published two items on Sam Lesser, the British IB vet and chairman of the International Brigade Memorial Trust, who passed away last week: a brief notice and an obituary by Roger Bagley:
The Daily Worker also sent Lesser to Cuba as the world held its...
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Alan Warren, who is organizing a two-week tour around "The Memories and Places of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade" in Spain later this month, has launched a blog to record the group's experiences. See here for an itinerary.
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"I have to say no to all sorts of good people ..." Pete Seeger, who will be playing at a Puffin-hosted ALBA benefit event in two weeks (order tickets here, press release here), describes his Sunday routine for the Times' Michael Wilson:
It’s almost a bad joke in...
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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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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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Leon Bibel, a New-York-based painter, printmaker, and teacher who worked with the WPA and was only discovered by the public years after his death in 1995, was primed from birth to identify with the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War.
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Can conservation be a revolutionary practice? In his new book, The Monument of Tomorrow, Miguel Caballero shows that it certainly can. The story it tells is also the story of the Madrid that the Abraham Lincoln Brigade encountered—and helped shape—during the war.
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Few political leaders of modern Spain have been as maligned as Prime Minister Juan Negrín, who died in exile in 1956. But his personal papers, which have been only open to researchers since 2014, challenge long-standing portrayals of Negrín advanced by anti-Communist critics on both the left and right.
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The war in Spain was barely over, but the scramble to define the legacy of the International Brigades was on. Were they valiant antifascists, or had they been agents, victims, or dupes of world communism? In pre-1945 US popular culture, the brigadistas were often portrayed as heroic antifascists. At the same time, there were...
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China was entangled in multiple local and global crises when this image was published on the back cover of a Shanghai-based magazine.
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The Republic’s fight against fascism was not limited to the trenches. There was also a quieter, though no less vital front—the judiciary—where the Republic fought to preserve legality, due process, and democratic norms.
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Major US films and series about the Spanish Civil War have been few and far between. Why has Hollywood shied away from a topic that, on the face of it, presents such a trove of compelling stories?
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Close to 35 years after serving as a head nurse in the Spanish Civil War, Fredericka Martin, by then an accomplished author, returned to Spain to revisit the hospital sites where she had her fellow volunteers had saved hundreds of lives. Another half century later, Gina Benavidez, a doctoral candidate, followed Martin’s trail.
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Although this text by Ivens is little known—and has never been translated before—it offers an eye-opening reflection on the power of his filmmaking.
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Antifascism has long been synonymous with American values. In 1934, student activists at New York’s City College arguably understood this better than many do today.
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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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