ALBA's sister organization in the UK, the International Brigade Memorial Trust, has just published its second newsletter of the year, featuring reviews of Angela Jackson's new book and the catalog of the Antifascistas exhibit; news on Garzón and newly unveiled monuments; and a report of a visit by SCW vets to the House of...
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Michael Kerrigan reviews ALBA Board member Antonio Muñoz Molina's ambitious Civil War novel, La noche de los tiempos, for the Times Literary Supplement (pdf):

Written with lyric intensity and epic scope, La noche de los tiempos engages as only a novel can with the everyday stuff...
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David McKelvy White was a founding member and Executive Secretary of the VALB, serving in that capacity at the time of his death in July of 1945. Dave, as he was known to friends, was the eldest son of George White and Charlotte McKelvy White, and spent his childhood in Marietta, Ohio. After amassing...
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Guénaël Mettraux writes an incisive op-ed for the International Herald Tribune :

The reaction to Garzón’s latest investigative efforts and the Brazilian Supreme Court’s recent upholding of a law of amnesty that applies to the crimes of Brazil’s military dictatorship are powerful reminders that states can still decide what to do with...
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The History News Network reports on the "Picasso: Peace and Freedom" exhibit at the Tate in Liverpool. The show's pièce de resistance is the painting The Charnel House, on display in the UK for the first time in fifty years:

The Charnel House was based on a short...
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"There is international support for the view that a national prosecutor or investigating judge is entitled to seek to go behind a national amnesty in respect of international crimes in his or her own country," nine prominent international law scholars write in a letter published today in The Guardian:
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The trial of Baltasar Garzón has revealed that the Spanish courts have become politicized to a worrisome extent, Sinikka Tarvainen writes in the Earth Times:

For more than a decade, judges have increasingly come under the influence of politicians, many Spanish analysts say, concerned that such a situation is undermining...
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Erna Paris reflects in The Globe and Mail on President Obama's recent renunciation of the Bush national security doctrine and notes an increasing impact of the work done by the International Criminal Court, among other places in Spain:

Although the ICC is still a toddler in institutional terms,...
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The Spanish newspaper Público is publishing a series of stories of victims of Francoist repression--stories that, it says, the Spanish courts are refusing to hear. In November 2008, a month after his controversial October 2008 brief indicting the Franco regime for crimes against humanity, judge Baltasar Garzón disqualified himself from the case (se inhibió), passing...
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Picasso was no friend of Franco--or was he? "Although his political sympathies are known to have lain with the hard left, it turns out he was not above breaking bread with Franco's regime.", Vanessa Thorpe reports in today's Guardian on new information discovered by Picasso experts John Richardson and Gijs van Hensbergen:
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