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• La Pasionaria: the fading icon

  
  Lancaster Unity — Authority: 526
  Once a vibrant, glowing symbol and the inspiration of the Scots of the International Brigade, overlooked, crumbling La Pasionaria seems to appeal to the sky The slim but forceful arms which reach out to the heavens once symbolised a rallying call to defend the world against the forces of fascism. Today, however, ...
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• Ernest Hemingway at War

  
  Quazen — Authority: 480
  Ernest Hemingway in Milan 1918, courtesy JFK Library Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) often employed the war theme in his novels and short stories. But the macho Hemingway was no neophyte when it came to the real thing, having witnessed his share of blood and gore in both World War I and II, the 1921-22 ...
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• Blessed Josè Otín Aquiluè, November 30

  
  The Black Cordelias — Authority: 132
  Blessed Josè Otín Aquiluè, Salesian, Priest and Martyr Huesca, Spain, December 22, 1901 – Valencia, Spain, November 1936 Roman Martyrology: At Valencia, Spain, Blessed Joseph Otín Aquila, a priest of the Salesian Society and Martyr, who, in the same persecution, reached the heavenly kingdom undefeated in the ...
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• Costa Blanca News-Civil War

  
  AMLA Spain News & Property in Spain on The Spanish Property MLS — Authority: 148
  In an Alicante prison on the Costa Blanca the poet Miguel Hernandez was sentenced to death on January 18 1940 by the Permanent War Council during the Spanish Civil War.The sentence was later commuted to a 30 year life sentence .However the poet died in 1942 ,in prison. His family is still fighting the injustice of ...
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• *On The 75th Anniversary Of The Asturias Commune- Those Who Honor The Commune Are Kindred Spirits- A Guest Commentary

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 143
  *Click on title to link to an article in the on-line edition of "Socialist Appeal" by Ramon Samblas, "75th Anniversary Of The Asturian Commune"
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• Valle De Los Caídos....The Case For Demolition

  
  South Of Watford — Authority: 462
  1). You restore a beautiful wild mountainside that was destroyed by the construction of a brutal, ugly fascist monument. The monument continues to be maintained with public funds. 2). You avoid this. 3). We could have a small scale memorial, appropriate for its surroundings, placed in memory of those ...
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• Mass graves to be excavated in Ronda

  
  The Olive Press — Authority: 432
  FAMILIES of victims buried in 19 mass graves in the Serrania de Ronda have demanded their excavation. More than 1,700 people are believed to have been buried in the graves in the San Lorenzo cemetery in Ronda. The newly created Association for the Historical Memory in the Serrania, has applied to exhume the bodies ...
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• An International Women’s Brigade for Afghanistan

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 819
  Like the volunteers who fought the Spanish fascists in the 1930s, why not an international brigade of women to fight the Taliban?
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• A Picture Can Lie

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  NEW YORK -- The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy. The Spanish Civil War, although small in terms of the number of combatants, was perhaps the centurys ...
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• Billy Jack as an Anarchist Metaphor

  
  EYEAM4ANARCHY — Authority: 444
  Recently after one of the organizing meetings for Food Not Bombs Las Vegas , Charles " Radgeek " Johnson and I engaged in a conversation with a friend who has attended the A-Cafe several times over the past few months. At one point, the issue of an Anarchist societys ability to defend itself against a statist ...
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• *A Snapshot View Of The Leaders Of The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution- Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 143
  Click on title to link to Wikipedias entry for the 1917 Bolshevik secondary revolutionary leader Vladimir Antonov-Ovseyenko. No revolution can succeed without men and women of Antonov-Ovseyenkos caliber. Although he did Stalins dirty work Spain in the 1930s his military bravado during the storming of the Winter Palace ...
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• A "Premature Antifascist" -- And Proudly So

  
  Kirklees Unity Exposing the Far Right — Authority: 138
  Clarence Kailin, a son of the Midwest whose lifelong commitment to social and economic justice led him to become one of the first Americans to take up arms against the fascist forces that swept across Europe in the years before World War II, has died at age 95. Kailin was one of the last survivors of the 2,800 ...
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• La Sagrada Familia – Barcelona Spain

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 142
  La Sagrada Familia Barcelona Spain The Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família (official Catalan name; Spanish: Templo Expiatorio de la Sagrada Familia ; “Expiatory Temple of the Holy Family”), often simply called the Sagrada Família, is a massive Roman Catholic church ...
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• A mythical Balearic Island

  
  John's Labour blog — Authority: 474
  I’m just back from a great break in warm and sunny Mallorca. Or rather according to The Rough Guide the mythical fifth Balearic Island called “ Majorca ” (the English spelling for Mallorca). Since this is apparently a long standing Spanish joke (there are only four Islands). As much as I enjoy The Rough ...
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• Better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees

  
  Glasgow Daily Photo — Authority: 123
  This photo is of the statue commemorating all those who went and fought (and died) in the Spanish Civil War. It is on the Clyde walkway, between the railway bridge and the footbridge I was showing earlier last week. The quote above is at the foot of the statue, which is called ‘La Pasionaria’ and is of Dolores ...
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• Property in Javea and Properties in Javea

  
  The Article Blog — Authority: 140
  Javea is a coastal town, in the province of Alicante. It sits behind a bay between two rocky headlands, Cabo San Antonio and Cabo La Nao. Surrounded by orange, lemon and olive groves. The town is dominated by the Montgo peak, 753 metres high, declared a Natural Park in 1997. Montgo protects Javea from harsh north ...
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• *Poets Corner -From HistoMat- Brtish Poet John Cornford And The Spanish Civil War

  
  AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY — Authority: 143
  Click on title to link to HistoMats entry for the poet John Cornford who fell fighting Franco in Spain. All honor to his memory, as I have pointed out in other entries in this space when dealing with rank and file fighters despite his Stalinist Communist Party affiliation.
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• NYT > World: World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Exhuming Grave That May Hold Poet’s Remains

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 174
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . A mass grave could hold the remains of Federico García Lorca, though it is not clear if the writer’s remains will ever be identified because his family opposes the exhumation.
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• World Briefing | Europe: Spain: Exhuming Grave That May Hold Poet’s Remains

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 905
  A mass grave could hold the remains of Federico García Lorca, though it is not clear if the writer’s remains will ever be identified because his family opposes the exhumation.
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• Abraham Lincoln Brigade

  
  routine investigations — Authority: 114
  Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade source: life Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives
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