ADDED 02/04/2019
FROM 02/04/2019 | The Guardian
BY Sean Cooney
A 17-year-old who ‘couldn’t find Spain on a map’ walked across the Pyrenees to join the Spanish civil war’s freedom fighters. Folk trio the Young’uns explain how Johnny Longstaff’s extraordinary life inspired their latest album Spanish civil war British fighter Johnny Longstaff in Catalonia. Photograph: Duncan Longstaff It began nearly four years ago in Clevedon. We were […]
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ADDED 08/30/2018
FROM 08/30/2018 | Newham Recorder
BY Jon King
An amateur football club’s new away strip has scooped £75,000 worth of orders after its anti-fascist message spread to Spain. Clapton Community Football Club (CFC) – formed by fans boycotting Forest Gate based Clapton FC over its ownership – launched its away strip at a friendly against Wanderers FC on Saturday. The kit uses the […]
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ADDED 07/20/2018
FROM 07/20/2018 | Daily Beast
BY CLIVE IRVING
Spain’s prime minister wants to exorcise the spirit of Franco. But the spirit of the dictators is not that easy to eradicate. Take a look at Germany and, more worryingly, Italy. There’s enough of the whiff of fascism in the air without having to worry about the ghosts of its principal twentieth century practitioners. Or […]
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ADDED 05/04/2018
FROM 05/01/2018 | BlackPast.org
BY Peter Carroll
Approximately 90 African Americans fought in Spain during the civil war that engulfed that nation between 1936 and 1939. The war became a proxy war for the European great powers as the Soviet Union supported the newly established Second Spanish Republic while Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy supported the anti-Republic conservatives led by General Francisco […]
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