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July 3rd, 2011

Ethel MacDonald in Barcelona

This is a great video about Scottish anarchist Ethel MacDonald who was in Barcelona between 1936 and 1937, working with the CNT. In the crackdown after May 1937 she assisted the escape of anarchists wanted by the Communist secret police and by helping anarchists escape Spain, she became renowned in the British press as the “Scots Scarlet Pimpernel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_X5m32jM0

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Photos of Anarchism

http://imagenes.publico.es/resources/archivos/2010/10/5/1286309979821_E9492B81-F773-4F5D-BB85-8255160D645C_dn.jpg

This is a great slideshow of photos of Anarchism in Spain between 1936 and 1939. El Público

In the above photo, peasants arrive in Barcelona from the Aragonese front in 1936. The photo is in Plaça Catalunya.

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    The Spanish Holocaust
    2011/7/3

    The Spanish holocaust · ELPAÍS.com in English. Review of Paul Preston’s seminal work
    Clemency was not a word that Captain Manuel Díaz Criado understood. During his four months in charge of security in the Andalusian capital of Seville following the capture of the city in July 1936 by the forces of General Francisco Franco, he launched a reign of terror, rounding up anybody suspected

    The legacy of Francoism
    2011/7/2

    Spain and the lingering legacy of Franco – The Guardian
    The fascist dictator’s shadow still hangs over Spain – but can this generation or the next finally bring catharsis to the nation?

    Helios Gómez: gypsy anarchist
    2010/5/23
    I’ve added a short biography of Helios Gómez, perhaps the best known gypsy artivist in the Spanish Civil War, and author of many Republican propaganda posters.

    Interview with Paul Preston
    2010/5/23
    Audio interview with Paul Preston here on Canal  Ser in Spanish about his book We Saw Spain Die about foreign journalists in the Spanish Civil War. From review of We Saw Spain Die

    In the minds of these correspondents, the quest for truth was not compromised but enhanced by commitment. This testament to their testimony could not have been supplied by a more erudite expert. Preston is a peerless historian of Spain, and the only one who writes as readably as a professional journalist.

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