Letters

Letter to the Editors: About Salaria Kea

August 16, 2025
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<em>Letter to the Editors:</em> About Salaria Kea

To the Editors: An article by Kathryn Everly in the March 2022 Volunteer on Salaria Kea’s life and her experiences in Spain focused on the fairness of comments found in the ALBA Collection at the Tamiment Library. When Fredericka Martin reviewed materials by and about Salaria, she found that some accounts of incidents were...
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Letter to the Editors: In Praise of At the Barricades

August 16, 2025
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<em>Letter to the Editors:</em> In Praise of <em>At the Barricades</em>

To the Editors: As a longtime supporter of VALB and ALBA—and as a 76-year-old “red diaper baby” having been brought up in a “Brigade-adjacent” family—I was excited to see the announcement for the play At the Barricades, brought to us by a younger generation of activist theater makers. The performance was so impressive that I...
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Letter from ALBA: Brigades Will Be Forming Again

August 16, 2025
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Brigades Will Be Forming Again

Dear Friends, “There will be Brigades forming again,” John Garfield’s character says at the end of The Fallen Sparrow, the 1943 spy thriller in which he plays Kit McKittrick, a traumatized Lincoln vet who singlehandedly foils a Nazi plot. Although the phrase is easy to miss, it is key to understanding the story’s political...
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Letter to the Editors: S.L. Shneiderman’s Lost Book on the Spanish War

May 16, 2025
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<em>Letter to the Editors:</em> S.L. Shneiderman’s Lost Book on the Spanish War

I'm hoping the Volunteer's readers can help me with a research project.
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Letter to the Editors: Eddie Barsky and Ben Segal

May 16, 2025
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<em>Letter to the Editors:</em> Eddie Barsky and Ben Segal

Eddie Barsky was a close friend of my father, Dr. Benjamin Segal, an OB-GYN who delivered many of the “red diaper babies” in New York City and worked with Dr. Barsky on various medical and political projects.
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Letter from ALBA: Liberation through Solidarity

<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Liberation through Solidarity

“The courage and fortitude the Lincoln Brigade exemplified is desperately needed today. They saw the writing on the wall and didn't wait until the powers that be caught up with them to take what J. Edgar Hoover preposterously described as premature anti-fascist action.” Audrey Sasson, the Executive Director of Jews for Racial and Economic...
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Letters to the Editors: Trotskyists & Dr. Barsky

February 22, 2025
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<em>Letters to the Editors:</em> Trotskyists & Dr. Barsky

Thank you to all those involved in the preparation of the Barsky issue, including Nancy Phillips for her financial support. I always read the magazine with interest, but this issue was of personal importance to me.
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Letter from ALBA: Indignation and Disbelief

February 22, 2025
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> Indignation and Disbelief

Dear Friends, We know that many of you are working hard to transform your indignation and disbelief at political developments in our country into the mobilizing energy needed to build a new Popular Front against fascism. At ALBA we are well aware of the small but significant role we play as an educational organization...
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Letter from ALBA: A Time of Loss—and Determination

November 22, 2024
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> A Time of Loss—and Determination

Dear Friends, The past couple of months have been marked by losses. As we were still reeling from the sudden passing of Peter Carroll, longtime ALBA chair and editor of The Volunteer, we had to find a way to process the outcome of the elections—in the runup to which we partnered with 18by Vote...
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Letter to the Editors

August 29, 2024
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Letter to the Editors

I am very grateful to all the members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade for their selfless participation in the Spanish Civil War. I am the proud grandson of a Republican soldier from the Aragon front, who gave his future (and almost his life) in the defense of freedom. I know that the Lincoln Brigade...
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