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Viva La Pasionaria! Celebrating the Women of the Spanish Civil War
Tuesday 28 October is the 70th anniversary of the withdrawal of the International Brigades from Spain. From around the world thousands of mainly working class men and women had volunteered to go to...
View ArticleCollapse of Capitalism?
25 years ago I voted Labour with no real illusions of socialism but because many of us could see where Thatcherism was taking us. Michael Foot had inherited the aftermath of Callaghan and a lot of...
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Alternative View from Spain
A Spanish take on “Bailing –Out” Capitalism(o) This appeared in one of my local daily newspapers “La Opinion” the caption says alternating currents, I wondered if was “Sir” Fred Goodwin floating off...
View ArticleSpain, facing the past to build the future
Whilst the world struggles with the financial crisis and the US Presidential elections grabbing the front pages and news headlines, Spain, struggling with unemployment figures over two million and over...
View ArticleLos Brigadistas Olvidados
As we try to get to grips with the unrest in Greece and the aftermath of the massacre in Mumbai there has been some better news hiding on the inside pages. At the weekend the Spanish daily El Pais...
View ArticleHappy New Year and Peace in Gaza
Doing the rounds of the blogs and e-mails in Spain is this fantastic work by Lena Gieseke. It is a 3D version of Picasso’s Guernica set to the music of Manual de Falla. It is one of the most telling...
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Despedida del Convoy Internacional de ayuda humanitaria para Gaza
laRepúblicaCultural.es George Galloway MP, Yvonne Ridley y centenares de voluntarios conducen un convoy de ayuda con más de 100 vehículos donados y cargados con ayuda útil destinada a Gaza. Partieron...
View ArticleSpain Honours Civil War Veterans
Extract from the Times The gesture is too late for most, but today Spain will give passports to the surviving members of the International Brigades. Seven British pensioners are due to accept their...
View ArticleGalician Metal Workers on the Barricades
Violent protests have broken out outside the docks in the HJ Barreras shipyard in the northwestern Spanish city of Viga, and outside the PSA Peugeot-Citroën factory. The clips here are of earlier...
View ArticleYo Soy Rebelde
I am a rebel because the world has made me so The post Yo Soy Rebelde appeared on Socialist Unity.
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Spain: What Today’s General Strike is About
Spain’s two main labor unions — UGT and CC.OO — claim that today’s strike was a success. They said some 10 million workers (70 percent of the workforce) have not gone to work. The main issues for the...
View ArticleCommentary on Spain’s General Strike
This is an interview published in El Público today with Luis García Montero and Joaquín Sabinaby that Hugh Green translated this morning and posted on his own blog. It was reproduced today by Irish...
View ArticleTory Francophiles
“After years of aggression and massacres, they [the British ruling class] had grasped only one fact, that Hitler and Mussolini were hostile to Communism. Therefore, it was argued, they must be friendly...
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The Scale of Spain’s Recent General Strike
from Izquierda Unida Más de 2 millones de trabajadores y trabajadoras en Catalunya y más de 10 en el conjunto del Estado han hablado con la Huelga, ésta ha sido un éxito y ahora la pelota está en el...
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Spain
Some 25,000 Spanish protesters have defied a government ban and camped out overnight in a square in the capital, Madrid. The protesters are angry with the government’s economic policies and have...
View ArticleArab Spring, Spanish Summer
by Tony Mckenna The political events in Spain have not received a great deal of TV coverage but the internet provides a different story altogether. The blogosphere is currently humming with speculation...
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INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE 75th ANNIVERARY
This Saturday, 22 October, is the 75th anniversary of the Spanish Republic issuing the decree to recognise the International Brigades which were forming to join the defence of Spain’s Land and Freedom....
View ArticleRemember the Heroes Who Fought in Spain
On the 75th Anniversary of the founding of the International Brigades The post Remember the Heroes Who Fought in Spain appeared on Socialist Unity.
View ArticlePromoting Peace in the Basque Country
Sinn Féin’s Conor Murphy MP & MLA, will be speaking at a conference, ‘Aiete conference, a road-map for peace in the Basque Country?’, on the Basque Peace Process at the European Parliament on...
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