The New York Times reports: The Supreme Court in Chile approved an extradition request on Wednesday against a former American Navy officer indicted in the killings of two United States citizens in the aftermath of the 1973 coup. Retired Capt. Ray E. Davis was commander of the United States Military Group at the embassy...
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Len Tsou writes from Spain: Tens of thousands of Spaniards poured into the streets of Madrid to join the Global Noise Against Debt on October 13. Men, women and children banged pots, pans and instruments marching from the EU headquarters, en route congress, to Puerta del Sol. They are furious about bailing out banks...
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Len Tsou writes: October 12 is El Día de la Hispanidad (Hispanicity Day) in Spain to mark the date when Christopher Columbus first set foot in the Americas in 1492. However, Toma la Plaza-Madrid group declares “Nothing to celebrate. Recognize everything!” Yesterday afternoon, in Madrid several hundreds marched from Plaza de Isabel to Puerta...
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Anarchist Movies of the Spanish Civil War Introduced by Edouard Waintrop Sunday, October 14, 2012, 1:00 p.m. Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2 Includes the following films: Report on the Revolutionary Movement 1936. Spain. Directed by Mateo Santos. An activist in Confederacion National del Trabajo (CNT), the anarcho-syndicalist confederation of...
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Next Wednesday, October 17th, at the Boston Public Library, Dan Lynn Watt and Molly Lynn Watt will perform George and Ruth Watt's Songs & Letters of the Spanish Civil War. Details below:
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Screening at El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid Spain 10/15, 7 p.m. Film Series: The cinema of the 1930s. Blue Flowers in a Catastrophic Landscape Selection: The Spanish Civil War through the Eyes of Others Film: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in Spain, Henri Cartier-Bresson & Herbert Kline. 1938, 16 mm, 21’....
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Journalist Martín de Pozuelo has recently proved, document by document, direct links between the Franco regime and the Holocaust, in which, "the few times that the Franco government facilitated help towards the jews was for foreign causes in their own interest or for propagandistic purposes," reports El Plural. According to El Plural, these...
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Join the Burt Cohen show with guest, Prof. Sebastiaan Faber, as they discuss both the bombing and the painting; what it was and why it remains so important. PODCAST LINK
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On the walls of the New Hampshire State House, there are numerous items meant to inspire visitors: a massive painting of a battle from America’s civil war, portraits of famous Granite Staters like Governor Gil Winant who, as ambassador to the court of St James, greatly helped sway American opinion toward supporting the British...
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ALBA is looking to expand its New York office staff with a part-time development/fundraising coordinator. The full job description is available here.
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In the spring of 2024, while cleaning up an old family home, Kate Fogarty came across the typescript of a play about the Lincoln Brigade written by her grandfather, Charlie Nusser, who served in Spain from February to October 1937 and fought in the US Army during the Second World War. Ten months after...
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In this new occasional feature of The Volunteer, whose title is the Esperanto word for “archive,” we will present, translate and contextualize iconic foreign language documents related to the anti-fascist struggle in Spain. If you have a favorite document in a language other than English, let us know!
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A dossier on the lies and deceptions surrounding the Spanish Civil War could fill a library, and it’s become commonplace to underscore the mendacity of the journalists reporting on events in Spain. Still, a careful analysis of the way that major international news agencies covered the war tells a more complicated story.
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The Barcelona-born muralist Roc Blackblock, who started painting walls 25 years ago, takes his inspiration from photography to put the spotlight on historical struggles against fascism, for democracy, and for human rights as a way of intervening in the political present. “Having a good photograph to work from makes a huge difference.”
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As a lifelong organizer and a student of history, I knew enough about the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to know that JFREJ at least aspires to organize within the tradition that they so distinctly represent. But I've taken the last month to do a deeper dive into that history. And I have been profoundly inspired...
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Camp Kinderland was first established 102 years ago by Jewish working-class immigrants who wanted to take their children out of the city’s hot summer streets and, through the camp program and its related Yiddish shul, familiarize them with their progressive Jewish traditions and heritage. Through the years, Camp Kinderland has upheld the principles that...
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Lincoln vet Bill Gresham’s Nightmare Alley cemented his fame as a noir novelist. Yet most of his Spanish Civil War poetry was never published—until now. William Lindsay Gresham (1909-1962), the Lincoln Brigade veteran whose bestselling crime novel Nightmare Alley (1946) inspired two films, was never the same after the Spanish Civil War. He rarely...
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“The past isn’t dead,” William Faulker famously wrote; “it isn’t even past.” The quote came to mind me while attending a remarkable gathering last September in the ancient Spanish town of Azuara, a small community of roughly 500 inhabitants, 40 miles south of Zaragoza (Aragón). Azuara was transformed by the Spanish Civil War. Over...
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The first American to die in the Spanish Civil War was a 47-year-old mining engineer from New York who had married a Spaniard, moved to Madrid in 1933, and covered the 1934 revolution for the US media. As soon as he heard about the 1936 coup, he joined the Republican army. Leo Edwin Fleischman...
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The way we think about George Orwell today was profoundly shaped by the Cold War—and by the groundbreaking work of Peter Stansky, who started writing about him shortly after his death. When the Spanish Civil War broke out in the summer of 1936, Peter Stansky was four years old—and although he lived in Brooklyn,...
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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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