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On Anarchy: An Interview

Andrew Gavin Marshall wrote 1 day ago: On Anarchism Originally posted at: WhatAboutPeace by Devon DB On Anarchism: An Interview with Andrew … more →

Tags: Culture & society, Resistance/Revolution, interviews, Russian Revolution, revolution, anarchism, Anarchy, Noam Chomsky, Proudhon

All dead but one: It’s time our Spanish Civil War heroes were recognized

The Ideas Cafe wrote 2 days ago: Terrence Rundle West Quick, identify the Canadian battalion that celebrates its 75th anniversary thi … more →

Tags: The Ideas Cafe, canadian veterans

Lorca's last love letter

sara0902 wrote 4 days ago: Newly unearthed note sheds light on why the writer failed to flee the Civil War Click here for full … more →

Tags: Articles and Musings, language, Spain, Federico García Lorca, Literature, writer

War Novels

Holly Gruntner wrote 4 days ago: 1/2 cup oats, 1/2 cup skim, dash of vanilla (I don’t know that the vanilla adds much flavor, b … more →

Tags: Reading, Traveling, Learning, Thinking, watching, Family, Mac, Gone with the Wind, Holidays

Mujeres Libres (Free Women)

revolutionaryanarchist wrote 6 days ago:  Sex, Class and womens oppression A 14 page pamphlet of anarchist articles against the oppression of … more →

Tags: anarcho-syndicalism, Spanish Revolution, mujeres libres

CNT - History of Collectivization & Organization

revolutionaryanarchist wrote 6 days ago: The fascists launched a coup on July 17th 1936. The initial step was taken when Franco seized Morocc … more →

Tags: C!nt@, Spanish Revolution, libertarian socialism

My Personal A to Z of Spain, V is for Valle de los Caídos (Valley of the Fallen)3 comments

Andrew Petcher wrote 1 week ago: The route from Manzanares El Real to El Escorial took us to the foothills of the Sierra Guadarrama m … more →

Tags: Spain, World Heritage, Travel, Manzanares el Real, Valle de los Caídos, valley of the fallen, Francisco Franco, Photography, Life

Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

Culture Spectator wrote 1 week ago: Joan MiróThe Farm, 1921-1922oil on canvasNational Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Mary Hemingway … more →

Tags: Visual Arts, richard p. townsend, Joan Miro, Pablo Picasso, Ladder of Escape, National Gallery of Art, tate, Cubism, surealism

A Tour in Time - Madrid and the Spanish Civil War

mathieson1 wrote 1 week ago: Republican Bunker in Madrid In July 1936 insurgent Spanish troops organised a military coup which at … more →

Tags: Madrid

The Scottish Ambulance Unit in Spain and the Spanish Civil War

rachaelegan wrote 2 weeks ago: Following a year long digitisation project, the Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick h … more →

Tags: Archive Services (GUAS), Scottish Ambulance Unit, Sir Daniel Macaulay Stevenson

XVth International Button

sebthered wrote 2 weeks ago: This story fragment is fifty-fifty; half-true, half-fiction. I used some artistic licence so if ther … more →

Tags: Gibberish, Politics, Music, Comrades, Creative Writing, communism, Viva La Quinta Brigada, brigadista, International Brigades

Joan Miró: "The Ladder of Escape," The National Gallery of Art, May 6 - August 12, 2012

elliottingotham wrote 2 weeks ago: [examiner.com] Joan Miró (1893-1983), one of the world’s greatest and most influential 20th ce … more →

Tags: art museums, museum exhibitions, Art, National Gallery of Art, Joan Miro, Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Two From The Manics

Lonna wrote 2 weeks ago: For my choice today from the Welsh bands is, Manic Street Preachers, and because they are just so gr … more →

Tags: Welsh Bands, Manic Street Preachers, design for life, If you tolerate this, GEORGE ORWELL, the clash

My Personal A to Z of Spain, R is for Ronda11 comments

Andrew Petcher wrote 2 weeks ago: Even before my quest to discover ‘Real Spain’ I went in October 2003 to play golf and st … more →

Tags: Spain, History, Travel, Ronda, Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Photography, Life, Death In The Afternoon

Man's Best Friend

lshimel wrote 2 weeks ago: Robert Capa, [Sitting volunteer and dog, farewell ceremony for the International Brigades, Les Masie … more →

Tags: Fans in a Flashbulb, Robert Capa, Dogs, Elliott Erwitt

11 things you did not know about Barcelona and its people2 comments

Irina Petre wrote 2 weeks ago: The famous Catalan capital is all together a swarm of people, music, frenzy colours, palm trees, fla … more →

Tags: Spain, barcelona, Catalans, Picasso, Gaudí, Sardana, Demano, GEORGE ORWELL, Catalonia

Interesting Things on the Way to Havana . . . Hemingway and More!

ms maureen wrote 3 weeks ago: We saw some memorable things on the day we traveled from Vinales to our Havana hotel — especia … more →

Tags: photograph, Travel, Interiors, Vinales, cuba, havana, Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway, Havana Biennial

Guernica: 75 Years Later

hecksinductionhour wrote 3 weeks ago: Via Histomat … more →

Tags: film and video, racism, nationalism, fascism, War & Peace, International Affairs, guernica, Philosophy Football, International Brigades, Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Much Ado About Scanning

Nick Edwards wrote 3 weeks ago: I’ll try to keep this short to prevent my own future self from dropping dead when he reads bac … more →

Tags: Work, Modern Records Centre, technology, Research, Scanning, MRC


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