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THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP Bob Smillie. More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finally surfaced. Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie was a Scottish volunteer who joined the Spanish Civil War in the contingent of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and who died in 1937 under strange VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. “IF SPAIN BECAME A REPUBLIC ONCE AGAIN, WE’D HAVE LOST THE Josep never returned to Europe for good; he died in New York in 1995. In 2009, Georges paid tribute to his uncle with La Retirada: Exode et exil des républicains, a book published in French that, in addition to an anthology of drawings of the war and the camps, included a series of short memoirs by Georges. It closed with a photographic record of Georges’s retracing the route his parents REMEMBERING THE S.S. CIUDAD DE BARCELONA The ship Ciudad de Barcelona had been nationalized by the Republican government, and in May 1937 she was transporting IB volunteers and other passengers from France to Spain. It is estimated that she carried more than 300 IB volunteers. There were some 50 volunteers from the United States, but also volunteers from Britain, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Canadians in the Lincoln Battalion. The first Canadian volunteers for the International Brigades arrived in Cherbourg on January 28, 1937. Nine additional volunteers arrived in the port on February 9, 1937. Almost all of these men joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Canadian volunteers were integrated into the Lincolns fromthe onset.
BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. Doty, who had an adventurous streak, joined the Tennessee Army THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN The Carrillo proofs are off his table, but the pile of work is still stacked to the ceiling of his cramped London study. “I’m up to my eyes with things I promised to do in terms of reviews and chapters for people’s books, and so on,” he laughs. “It’s the problem ofbeing a
SPANISH COURT ORDERS REMOVAL OF IB MONUMENT IN MADRID The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJM) has ordered the removal of the International Brigades monument in la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). In 1936, the university saw heavy fighting between Franco’s forces and some of the Spanish Republic’s first foreign volunteers, later renowned as the International Brigades.THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP Bob Smillie. More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finally surfaced. Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie was a Scottish volunteer who joined the Spanish Civil War in the contingent of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and who died in 1937 under strange VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. “IF SPAIN BECAME A REPUBLIC ONCE AGAIN, WE’D HAVE LOST THE Josep never returned to Europe for good; he died in New York in 1995. In 2009, Georges paid tribute to his uncle with La Retirada: Exode et exil des républicains, a book published in French that, in addition to an anthology of drawings of the war and the camps, included a series of short memoirs by Georges. It closed with a photographic record of Georges’s retracing the route his parents REMEMBERING THE S.S. CIUDAD DE BARCELONA The ship Ciudad de Barcelona had been nationalized by the Republican government, and in May 1937 she was transporting IB volunteers and other passengers from France to Spain. It is estimated that she carried more than 300 IB volunteers. There were some 50 volunteers from the United States, but also volunteers from Britain, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Canadians in the Lincoln Battalion. The first Canadian volunteers for the International Brigades arrived in Cherbourg on January 28, 1937. Nine additional volunteers arrived in the port on February 9, 1937. Almost all of these men joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Canadian volunteers were integrated into the Lincolns fromthe onset.
BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. Doty, who had an adventurous streak, joined the Tennessee Army THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN The Carrillo proofs are off his table, but the pile of work is still stacked to the ceiling of his cramped London study. “I’m up to my eyes with things I promised to do in terms of reviews and chapters for people’s books, and so on,” he laughs. “It’s the problem ofbeing a
SPANISH COURT ORDERS REMOVAL OF IB MONUMENT IN MADRID The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJM) has ordered the removal of the International Brigades monument in la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). In 1936, the university saw heavy fighting between Franco’s forces and some of the Spanish Republic’s first foreign volunteers, later renowned as the International Brigades. ARCHIVE - THE VOLUNTEER The Volunteer (Scroll down for back issues of the print edition.) 2021 June 2021 March 2021 2020 December 2020 September 2020 June 2020 March2020
SYDNEY HARRIS, UK-BORN LINCOLN VET May 11, 2021. By Jerry Harris. Syd Harris. Photo Richard Bermack. Born in Leeds, England, Syd Harris ended up in a Chicago orphanage when he was five. Fifteen years later, he volunteered for the Lincoln Battalion. After the war, as a well-known labor photographer and journalist, he was targeted by the FBI. A former boxer, he also actedas Paul
RACIAL JUSTICE, THEN AND NOW: PAUL ROBESON’S ANTIFASCIST The singer consistently spoke against segregation and racial violence in the U.S. as well as colonialism in Africa. Anti-fascism impugns white supremacy, then and now. As police violence against Black Americans has sparked protests around the country, the term anti-fascism has returned to the headlines. But rather than confronting the reality TOURISM IN FRANCO’S SPAIN Franco purchased school buses from the Chrysler Corporation, trained a team of guides and, on July 1, 1938, while the war raged, and before the Ebro campaign had begun, the first of the tours took place. The cost was £8 for a nine-day tour, including three meals a day, accommodation in first-class hotels and incidental expenses. JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Canadians in the Lincoln Battalion. The first Canadian volunteers for the International Brigades arrived in Cherbourg on January 28, 1937. Nine additional volunteers arrived in the port on February 9, 1937. Almost all of these men joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Canadian volunteers were integrated into the Lincolns fromthe onset.
THE PAINFUL PAST OF SPANISH CIVIL WAR REFUGEES IN FRANCE In a matter of weeks, around 475,000 refugees had crossed the French-Spanish border. The exodus came to be known later as La Retirada (The Retreat).To mark its 80th anniversary, FRANCE 24 spoke to Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, historian and author of “The Exile of Spanish Republicans in France: From the Civil War to Franco’s Death”, who explained this forgotten chapter in history. THE WAR BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: AN INTERVIEW WITH The War Before the Lights Went Out: An Interview with Helen Graham. March 6, 2010. By Sebastiaan Faber and James D. Fernández. ( Versión en castellano .) Editor’s Note: This is an extended version of the interview that appears in the print version of the March, 2010 issue of the Volunteer. Video: Helen Graham: A Very Short Introduction (8 PRISONERS IN FRANCO’S PRISONS Prisoners in Franco’s Prisons – by John C. Blair. February 5, 2018. By Chris Brooks. By John C. Blair, The Volunteer, Volume 6, Number 3, October 1984. (Our comrade John Blair, died in 1982. This account of prison life, forwarded to us by his widow, Harriet, was written the year before he died. “He had other stories planned,”said
BOB SMILLIE AND THE MEMORY OF THE P.O.U.M. Bob Smillie. A special figure in the ILP contingent was Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie. Born in Larkhall, Scotland, in 1916, Smillie belonged to a family with a long working-class tradition: his grandfather was the famous mining unionist Robert Smillie, one of theILP’s founders.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN Archaeology and memory in Spain. December 17, 2014. By Ashley Ellington. Exhumation by the Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory (ARMH). Archivo fotográfico Foro Cultural Provincia de El Bierzo. CC BY-SA 3.0. This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the2014 George Watt
THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finallysurfaced. Robert
“IF SPAIN BECAME A REPUBLIC ONCE AGAIN, WE’D HAVE LOST THE Josep never returned to Europe for good; he died in New York in 1995. In 2009, Georges paid tribute to his uncle with La Retirada: Exode et exil des républicains, a book published in French that, in addition to an anthology of drawings of the war and the camps, included a series of short memoirs by Georges. It closed with a photographic record of Georges’s retracing the route his parents VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. REMEMBERING THE S.S. CIUDAD DE BARCELONA The ship Ciudad de Barcelona had been nationalized by the Republican government, and in May 1937 she was transporting IB volunteers and other passengers from France to Spain. It is estimated that she carried more than 300 IB volunteers. There were some 50 volunteers from the United States, but also volunteers from Britain, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. In the Jarama Series, The Volunteer Blog will present a series of articles examining the experiences of volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion from its formation to the Brunete Offensive in July 1937. THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN Paul Preston is impossible to avoid. Author of twelve books, editor of several more, and director of an important series on the subject, he towers mile-high in the landscape of Spanish Civil War SPANISH COURT ORDERS REMOVAL OF IB MONUMENT IN MADRID The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJM) has ordered the removal of the International Brigades monument in la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). In 1936, the university saw heavy fighting between Franco’s forces and some of the Spanish Republic’s first foreign volunteers, later renowned as the International Brigades.THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finallysurfaced. Robert
“IF SPAIN BECAME A REPUBLIC ONCE AGAIN, WE’D HAVE LOST THE Josep never returned to Europe for good; he died in New York in 1995. In 2009, Georges paid tribute to his uncle with La Retirada: Exode et exil des républicains, a book published in French that, in addition to an anthology of drawings of the war and the camps, included a series of short memoirs by Georges. It closed with a photographic record of Georges’s retracing the route his parents VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. REMEMBERING THE S.S. CIUDAD DE BARCELONA The ship Ciudad de Barcelona had been nationalized by the Republican government, and in May 1937 she was transporting IB volunteers and other passengers from France to Spain. It is estimated that she carried more than 300 IB volunteers. There were some 50 volunteers from the United States, but also volunteers from Britain, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. In the Jarama Series, The Volunteer Blog will present a series of articles examining the experiences of volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion from its formation to the Brunete Offensive in July 1937. THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN Paul Preston is impossible to avoid. Author of twelve books, editor of several more, and director of an important series on the subject, he towers mile-high in the landscape of Spanish Civil War SPANISH COURT ORDERS REMOVAL OF IB MONUMENT IN MADRID The Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid (TSJM) has ordered the removal of the International Brigades monument in la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). In 1936, the university saw heavy fighting between Franco’s forces and some of the Spanish Republic’s first foreign volunteers, later renowned as the International Brigades. ARCHIVE - THE VOLUNTEER The Volunteer (Scroll down for back issues of the print edition.) 2021 June 2021 March 2021 2020 December 2020 September 2020 June 2020 March2020
SYDNEY HARRIS, UK-BORN LINCOLN VET Born in Leeds, England, Syd Harris ended up in a Chicago orphanage when he was five. Fifteen years later, he volunteered for the Lincoln Battalion. After the war, as a RACIAL JUSTICE, THEN AND NOW: PAUL ROBESON’S ANTIFASCIST Robeson’s anti-fascism had reached maturity by the 1950s, but it was the Spanish Civil War that helped solidify his perspective. A world-famous vocalist and actor by the 1930s, Robeson spent much of that decade performing and making films in the U.K., Europe, andSoviet Union.
THE PAINFUL PAST OF SPANISH CIVIL WAR REFUGEES IN FRANCE In a matter of weeks, around 475,000 refugees had crossed the French-Spanish border. The exodus came to be known later as La Retirada (The Retreat).To mark its 80th anniversary, FRANCE 24 spoke to Geneviève Dreyfus-Armand, historian and author of “The Exile of Spanish Republicans in France: From the Civil War to Franco’s Death”, who explained this forgotten chapter in history. TOURISM IN FRANCO’S SPAIN Few things can improve the pleasure of longer days and warm weather the way a good book does. Whether soaking up the sun or chilling in the A/C, pick up one, or all five, of these non-fiction works that center on or have a connection to the Spanish Civil War. ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the 2014 George Watt Memorial Essay Contest. Read the entire paper here.. Following the Spanish Civil War, the victorious dictator Francisco Franco used archaeology to legitimate his power as well as the official history of the war. FAMILY BONDS: AMERICAN FATHERS AND SONS IN THE SPANISH Samuel Nathan Franklin was born in Glukhov, Russia on November 16, 1891. He was a preteen when his family arrived in the U. S. in 1903. Dr. Franklin attended the Marquette Academy and graduated from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1916. JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. In the Jarama Series, The Volunteer Blog will present a series of articles examining the experiences of volunteers in the Abraham Lincoln Battalion from its formation to the Brunete Offensive in July 1937. PRISONERS IN FRANCO’S PRISONS Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. By John C. Blair, The Volunteer, Volume 6, Number 3, October 1984 (Our comrade John Blair, died in 1982. This account of prison life, forwarded to us by his widow, Harriet, was written the year before he died. BOB SMILLIE AND THE MEMORY OF THE P.O.U.M. Bob Smillie. A special figure in the ILP contingent was Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie. Born in Larkhall, Scotland, in 1916, Smillie belonged to a family with a long working-class tradition: his grandfather was the famous mining unionist Robert Smillie, one of theILP’s founders.
THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP Bob Smillie. More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finally surfaced. Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie was a Scottish volunteer who joined the Spanish Civil War in the contingent of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and who died in 1937 under strange VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. FAMILY BONDS: AMERICAN FATHERS AND SONS IN THE SPANISH Samuel Nathan Franklin was born in Glukhov, Russia on November 16, 1891. He was a preteen when his family arrived in the U. S. in 1903. Dr. Franklin attended the Marquette Academy and graduated from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1916. PRISONERS IN FRANCO’S PRISONS Prisoners in Franco’s Prisons – by John C. Blair. February 5, 2018. By Chris Brooks. By John C. Blair, The Volunteer, Volume 6, Number 3, October 1984. (Our comrade John Blair, died in 1982. This account of prison life, forwarded to us by his widow, Harriet, was written the year before he died. “He had other stories planned,”said
AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. Doty, who had an adventurous streak, joined the Tennessee Army JACK SHIRAI, (JAPANESE-AMERICAN VOLUNTEER, KILLED AT Jack Shirai, (Japanese-American Volunteer, killed at Villanueva de la Cañada –July 1937) By Ludwig D. The Volunteer for Liberty, V.1, No. 17, October 4, 1937. I hear that Comrade Shirai fell. ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN Archaeology and memory in Spain. December 17, 2014. By Ashley Ellington. Exhumation by the Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory (ARMH). Archivo fotográfico Foro Cultural Provincia de El Bierzo. CC BY-SA 3.0. This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the2014 George Watt
THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN The Carrillo proofs are off his table, but the pile of work is still stacked to the ceiling of his cramped London study. “I’m up to my eyes with things I promised to do in terms of reviews and chapters for people’s books, and so on,” he laughs. “It’s the problem ofbeing a
THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP Bob Smillie. More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finally surfaced. Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie was a Scottish volunteer who joined the Spanish Civil War in the contingent of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and who died in 1937 under strange VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. FAMILY BONDS: AMERICAN FATHERS AND SONS IN THE SPANISH Samuel Nathan Franklin was born in Glukhov, Russia on November 16, 1891. He was a preteen when his family arrived in the U. S. in 1903. Dr. Franklin attended the Marquette Academy and graduated from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1916. PRISONERS IN FRANCO’S PRISONS Prisoners in Franco’s Prisons – by John C. Blair. February 5, 2018. By Chris Brooks. By John C. Blair, The Volunteer, Volume 6, Number 3, October 1984. (Our comrade John Blair, died in 1982. This account of prison life, forwarded to us by his widow, Harriet, was written the year before he died. “He had other stories planned,”said
AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. Doty, who had an adventurous streak, joined the Tennessee Army JACK SHIRAI, (JAPANESE-AMERICAN VOLUNTEER, KILLED AT Jack Shirai, (Japanese-American Volunteer, killed at Villanueva de la Cañada –July 1937) By Ludwig D. The Volunteer for Liberty, V.1, No. 17, October 4, 1937. I hear that Comrade Shirai fell. ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN Archaeology and memory in Spain. December 17, 2014. By Ashley Ellington. Exhumation by the Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory (ARMH). Archivo fotográfico Foro Cultural Provincia de El Bierzo. CC BY-SA 3.0. This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the2014 George Watt
THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN The Carrillo proofs are off his table, but the pile of work is still stacked to the ceiling of his cramped London study. “I’m up to my eyes with things I promised to do in terms of reviews and chapters for people’s books, and so on,” he laughs. “It’s the problem ofbeing a
ARCHIVE - THE VOLUNTEER The Volunteer (Scroll down for back issues of the print edition.) 2021 June 2021 March 2021 2020 December 2020 September 2020 June 2020 March2020
LETTER TO THE EDITORS: (DE)POLITICIZING THE SPANISH CIVIL Letter to the Editors: (De)Politicizing the Spanish Civil War. Prof. Helen Graham’s “Why Do So Many Historians Fail to Understand the War in Spain” (December 2020) is a patent attempt to de-politicize the reasons behind and motives for the International Brigades. To use general terms like humanitarian, displacements, migration, ethnicity BOOK REVIEW: ADAM HOCHSCHILD ON GILES TREMLETT’S Book Review: Adam Hochschild on Giles Tremlett’s. International Brigades. May 11, 2021. By Adam Hochschild. The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, by Giles Tremlett. 696 pp. London: Bloomsbury. $30. Consider the obstacles faced by the volunteers from around the world who rushed to help defend Madrid in the STARS AND MERCURY: ON THE HOMAGE TO THE 1937 PAVILION Framed on the wall is a ‘broadsheet’ published for the 1937 Surrealist Exhibition in London in which both Miró and Picasso were exhibited. Visually the dense text is relieved by an abstract overprint in red designed by Henry Moore. The pamphlet marks the moment when pacifism was giving way to the inevitable consequences ofEuropean conflict.
TOURISM IN FRANCO’S SPAIN Franco purchased school buses from the Chrysler Corporation, trained a team of guides and, on July 1, 1938, while the war raged, and before the Ebro campaign had begun, the first of the tours took place. The cost was £8 for a nine-day tour, including three meals a day, accommodation in first-class hotels and incidental expenses. AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. REMEMBERING THE S.S. CIUDAD DE BARCELONA The ship Ciudad de Barcelona had been nationalized by the Republican government, and in May 1937 she was transporting IB volunteers and other passengers from France to Spain. It is estimated that she carried more than 300 IB volunteers. There were some 50 volunteers from the United States, but also volunteers from Britain, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Canadians in the Lincoln Battalion. The first Canadian volunteers for the International Brigades arrived in Cherbourg on January 28, 1937. Nine additional volunteers arrived in the port on February 9, 1937. Almost all of these men joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Canadian volunteers were integrated into the Lincolns fromthe onset.
BOB SMILLIE AND THE MEMORY OF THE P.O.U.M. Bob Smillie. A special figure in the ILP contingent was Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie. Born in Larkhall, Scotland, in 1916, Smillie belonged to a family with a long working-class tradition: his grandfather was the famous mining unionist Robert Smillie, one of theILP’s founders.
THE WAR BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: AN INTERVIEW WITH The War Before the Lights Went Out: An Interview with Helen Graham. March 6, 2010. By Sebastiaan Faber and James D. Fernández. ( Versión en castellano .) Editor’s Note: This is an extended version of the interview that appears in the print version of the March, 2010 issue of the Volunteer. Video: Helen Graham: A Very Short Introduction (8THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP Bob Smillie. More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finally surfaced. Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie was a Scottish volunteer who joined the Spanish Civil War in the contingent of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and who died in 1937 under strange VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. FAMILY BONDS: AMERICAN FATHERS AND SONS IN THE SPANISH Samuel Nathan Franklin was born in Glukhov, Russia on November 16, 1891. He was a preteen when his family arrived in the U. S. in 1903. Dr. Franklin attended the Marquette Academy and graduated from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1916. PRISONERS IN FRANCO’S PRISONS Prisoners in Franco’s Prisons – by John C. Blair. February 5, 2018. By Chris Brooks. By John C. Blair, The Volunteer, Volume 6, Number 3, October 1984. (Our comrade John Blair, died in 1982. This account of prison life, forwarded to us by his widow, Harriet, was written the year before he died. “He had other stories planned,”said
AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. Doty, who had an adventurous streak, joined the Tennessee Army JACK SHIRAI, (JAPANESE-AMERICAN VOLUNTEER, KILLED AT Jack Shirai, (Japanese-American Volunteer, killed at Villanueva de la Cañada –July 1937) By Ludwig D. The Volunteer for Liberty, V.1, No. 17, October 4, 1937. I hear that Comrade Shirai fell. ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN Archaeology and memory in Spain. December 17, 2014. By Ashley Ellington. Exhumation by the Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory (ARMH). Archivo fotográfico Foro Cultural Provincia de El Bierzo. CC BY-SA 3.0. This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the2014 George Watt
THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN The Carrillo proofs are off his table, but the pile of work is still stacked to the ceiling of his cramped London study. “I’m up to my eyes with things I promised to do in terms of reviews and chapters for people’s books, and so on,” he laughs. “It’s the problem ofbeing a
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ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP Bob Smillie. More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finally surfaced. Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie was a Scottish volunteer who joined the Spanish Civil War in the contingent of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and who died in 1937 under strange VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. FAMILY BONDS: AMERICAN FATHERS AND SONS IN THE SPANISH Samuel Nathan Franklin was born in Glukhov, Russia on November 16, 1891. He was a preteen when his family arrived in the U. S. in 1903. Dr. Franklin attended the Marquette Academy and graduated from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1916. PRISONERS IN FRANCO’S PRISONS Prisoners in Franco’s Prisons – by John C. Blair. February 5, 2018. By Chris Brooks. By John C. Blair, The Volunteer, Volume 6, Number 3, October 1984. (Our comrade John Blair, died in 1982. This account of prison life, forwarded to us by his widow, Harriet, was written the year before he died. “He had other stories planned,”said
AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. Doty, who had an adventurous streak, joined the Tennessee Army JACK SHIRAI, (JAPANESE-AMERICAN VOLUNTEER, KILLED AT Jack Shirai, (Japanese-American Volunteer, killed at Villanueva de la Cañada –July 1937) By Ludwig D. The Volunteer for Liberty, V.1, No. 17, October 4, 1937. I hear that Comrade Shirai fell. ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN Archaeology and memory in Spain. December 17, 2014. By Ashley Ellington. Exhumation by the Association for the Recovery of the Historical Memory (ARMH). Archivo fotográfico Foro Cultural Provincia de El Bierzo. CC BY-SA 3.0. This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the2014 George Watt
THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN The Carrillo proofs are off his table, but the pile of work is still stacked to the ceiling of his cramped London study. “I’m up to my eyes with things I promised to do in terms of reviews and chapters for people’s books, and so on,” he laughs. “It’s the problem ofbeing a
ARCHIVE - THE VOLUNTEER The Volunteer (Scroll down for back issues of the print edition.) 2021 June 2021 March 2021 2020 December 2020 September 2020 June 2020 March2020
LETTER TO THE EDITORS: (DE)POLITICIZING THE SPANISH CIVIL Letter to the Editors: (De)Politicizing the Spanish Civil War. Prof. Helen Graham’s “Why Do So Many Historians Fail to Understand the War in Spain” (December 2020) is a patent attempt to de-politicize the reasons behind and motives for the International Brigades. To use general terms like humanitarian, displacements, migration, ethnicity BOOK REVIEW: ADAM HOCHSCHILD ON GILES TREMLETT’S Book Review: Adam Hochschild on Giles Tremlett’s. International Brigades. May 11, 2021. By Adam Hochschild. The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, by Giles Tremlett. 696 pp. London: Bloomsbury. $30. Consider the obstacles faced by the volunteers from around the world who rushed to help defend Madrid in the STARS AND MERCURY: ON THE HOMAGE TO THE 1937 PAVILION Framed on the wall is a ‘broadsheet’ published for the 1937 Surrealist Exhibition in London in which both Miró and Picasso were exhibited. Visually the dense text is relieved by an abstract overprint in red designed by Henry Moore. The pamphlet marks the moment when pacifism was giving way to the inevitable consequences ofEuropean conflict.
TOURISM IN FRANCO’S SPAIN Franco purchased school buses from the Chrysler Corporation, trained a team of guides and, on July 1, 1938, while the war raged, and before the Ebro campaign had begun, the first of the tours took place. The cost was £8 for a nine-day tour, including three meals a day, accommodation in first-class hotels and incidental expenses. AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. REMEMBERING THE S.S. CIUDAD DE BARCELONA The ship Ciudad de Barcelona had been nationalized by the Republican government, and in May 1937 she was transporting IB volunteers and other passengers from France to Spain. It is estimated that she carried more than 300 IB volunteers. There were some 50 volunteers from the United States, but also volunteers from Britain, Canada, Norway, Denmark, Austria, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands JARAMA SERIES: CANADIANS IN THE LINCOLN BATTALION Canadians in the Lincoln Battalion. The first Canadian volunteers for the International Brigades arrived in Cherbourg on January 28, 1937. Nine additional volunteers arrived in the port on February 9, 1937. Almost all of these men joined the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Canadian volunteers were integrated into the Lincolns fromthe onset.
BOB SMILLIE AND THE MEMORY OF THE P.O.U.M. Bob Smillie. A special figure in the ILP contingent was Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie. Born in Larkhall, Scotland, in 1916, Smillie belonged to a family with a long working-class tradition: his grandfather was the famous mining unionist Robert Smillie, one of theILP’s founders.
THE WAR BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: AN INTERVIEW WITH The War Before the Lights Went Out: An Interview with Helen Graham. March 6, 2010. By Sebastiaan Faber and James D. Fernández. ( Versión en castellano .) Editor’s Note: This is an extended version of the interview that appears in the print version of the March, 2010 issue of the Volunteer. Video: Helen Graham: A Very Short Introduction (8THE VOLUNTEER
ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. HOW AN ANTI-FASCIST PHOTOGRAPHER LANDED IN A REPUBLICAN The Dutch photographer Lini Bunjes was among the first foreign volunteers to join the defense of the Spanish Republic. A free-spirited and independent woman, she attracted suspicion from both the Republican and Nationalist authorities and spent several stints injail.
BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finallysurfaced. Robert
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. FAMILY BONDS: AMERICAN FATHERS AND SONS IN THE SPANISH Samuel Nathan Franklin was born in Glukhov, Russia on November 16, 1891. He was a preteen when his family arrived in the U. S. in 1903. Dr. Franklin attended the Marquette Academy and graduated from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1916. THE WAR BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: AN INTERVIEW WITH (Versión en castellano.) Editor’s Note: This is an extended version of the interview that appears in the print version of the March, 2010 issue of the Volunteer.. Video: Helen Graham: A Very Short Introduction (8’42”) Spanish translation here. “Telling big stories through individual human lives is a very powerful way of doinghistory.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the 2014 George Watt Memorial Essay Contest. Read the entire paper here.. Following the Spanish Civil War, the victorious dictator Francisco Franco used archaeology to legitimate his power as well as the official history of the war. JACK SHIRAI, (JAPANESE-AMERICAN VOLUNTEER, KILLED AT Jack Shirai, (Japanese-American Volunteer, killed at Villanueva de la Cañada –July 1937) By Ludwig D. The Volunteer for Liberty, V.1, No. 17, October 4, 1937. I hear that Comrade Shirai fell. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN Paul Preston is impossible to avoid. Author of twelve books, editor of several more, and director of an important series on the subject, hetowers mile-high in
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ALBA’s annual Susman lecture—offered online this year, register here—will feature Marc Fasanella, who will speak about the art of his father, Lincoln Brigade veteran Ralph Fasanella (1914-1997). A largely self-taught painter, Fasanella was born to an Italian immigrant family in the Bronx. HOW AN ANTI-FASCIST PHOTOGRAPHER LANDED IN A REPUBLICAN The Dutch photographer Lini Bunjes was among the first foreign volunteers to join the defense of the Spanish Republic. A free-spirited and independent woman, she attracted suspicion from both the Republican and Nationalist authorities and spent several stints injail.
BOB SMILLIE’S NEWLY DISCOVERED PRISON DOSSIER CONJURES UP More than eighty years after Bob Smillie’s mysterious death in Valencia during the Spanish Civil War, his prison dossier has finallysurfaced. Robert
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR The following text is based on Paul Preston’s introduction to the Spanish re-edition of Ramón Sender-Barayón’s A Death in Zamora (Postmetrópolis, 2018), in which the son of Ramón J. Sender and Amparo Barayón investigates the circumstances of his mother’s death three months after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. FAMILY BONDS: AMERICAN FATHERS AND SONS IN THE SPANISH Samuel Nathan Franklin was born in Glukhov, Russia on November 16, 1891. He was a preteen when his family arrived in the U. S. in 1903. Dr. Franklin attended the Marquette Academy and graduated from the Marquette University School of Medicine in 1916. THE WAR BEFORE THE LIGHTS WENT OUT: AN INTERVIEW WITH (Versión en castellano.) Editor’s Note: This is an extended version of the interview that appears in the print version of the March, 2010 issue of the Volunteer.. Video: Helen Graham: A Very Short Introduction (8’42”) Spanish translation here. “Telling big stories through individual human lives is a very powerful way of doinghistory.
ARCHAEOLOGY AND MEMORY IN SPAIN This is an abstract of Ashley Ellington’s winning essay in the Graduate Student category of the 2014 George Watt Memorial Essay Contest. Read the entire paper here.. Following the Spanish Civil War, the victorious dictator Francisco Franco used archaeology to legitimate his power as well as the official history of the war. JACK SHIRAI, (JAPANESE-AMERICAN VOLUNTEER, KILLED AT Jack Shirai, (Japanese-American Volunteer, killed at Villanueva de la Cañada –July 1937) By Ludwig D. The Volunteer for Liberty, V.1, No. 17, October 4, 1937. I hear that Comrade Shirai fell. BENNETT JEFFRIES DOTY A DELAYED OBITUARY Bennett Jeffries Doty, Soldier of Fortune, attorney and author died April 4, 1938 in an unidentified hospital near Gandesa, Spain. Doty was born to Lemuel Humphries Doty (1866-1962) and Margaret “Mell” Jeffries Doty on August 16, 1900 in Faunsdale, Hale County, Alabama. THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN Paul Preston is impossible to avoid. Author of twelve books, editor of several more, and director of an important series on the subject, hetowers mile-high in
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BOOK REVIEW: ADAM HOCHSCHILD ON GILES TREMLETT’S Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War, by Giles Tremlett. 696 pp. London: Bloomsbury. $30.. Consider the obstacles faced by the volunteers from around the world who rushed to help defend Madrid in the perilous autumn of 1936, when Franco’s Nationalists almost captured the city. LETTER TO THE EDITORS: (DE)POLITICIZING THE SPANISH CIVIL Founded by the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. To the Editors: Prof. Helen Graham’s “Why Do So Many Historians Fail to Understand the War in Spain” (December 2020) is a patent attempt to de-politicize the reasons behind and motives for the InternationalBrigades.
STARS AND MERCURY: ON THE HOMAGE TO THE 1937 PAVILION In 1937 volunteers on their way to Spain through Paris were taken in groups to see the Spanish Pavilion at the International Exposition of Art and Technology of Modern Life. AN ANALYSIS OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN VOLUNTEERS COMPILED The Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History records on U.S. and Canadian volunteers deepens the available insight into the organization and employment of the International Brigades (IB) during the Spanish Civil War. TOURISM IN FRANCO’S SPAIN Among many other Spanish Civil War commemorations this year, it may be interesting to note that July 2013 marks the 75th anniversary of one of the conflict's most bizarre episodes. In December 2005 FORGOTTEN FIGHTERS: AMERICAN ANARCHIST VOLUNTEERS IN THE To the CNT’s comrades abroad, it appeared that in the midst of civil war, Spain was also undergoing a genuine social revolution. Many declared the two enterprises inseparable, arguing that the success of this revolution was the key to mobilizing the resources and THE MAN WHO CAN’T SAY NO: PRESTON IS WORKING HARDER THAN Paul Preston is impossible to avoid. Author of twelve books, editor of several more, and director of an important series on the subject, hetowers mile-high in
BOB SMILLIE AND THE MEMORY OF THE P.O.U.M. Bob Smillie. A special figure in the ILP contingent was Robert Ramsay “Bob” Smillie. Born in Larkhall, Scotland, in 1916, Smillie belonged to a family with a long working-class tradition: his grandfather was the famous mining unionist Robert Smillie, one of theILP’s founders.
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ALBA ONLINE EVENTS DRAW THOUSANDS November 14, 2020 By The editors Forced online by the ongoing pandemic, ALBA’s events have been generating strong interest from around the world. On September 12, ALBA’s Bay Area friends organized an 85-minute celebration of the newly restored national monument to the Lincoln Brigade in San Francisco. Hosted by Richard Bermack and featuring film footage by Vicente Franco, the program...Read more »
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NEW ONLINE TEACHER WORKSHOP IN JANUARY & FEBRUARY November 14, 2020 By The editors(Register here
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STUDENTS SHINE DURING PANDEMIC-ERA WATT AWARD November 14, 2020 By Aaron B. Retish Once again, the annual Watt Essay Award received a record number of submissions from around the world. The jury was especially impressed by the high quality of nearly all the submissions this year. Considering that these students produced this inspiring work during apandemic...
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SPAIN’S CABINET APPROVES NEW MEMORY LAW November 14, 2020 By Sebastiaan Faber In September, the cabinet of Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister, approved the draft for a new Law of Democratic Memory that seeks to go farther than existing legislation,...Read more »
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LETTER FROM ALBA: THEY DID NOT PASS November 14, 2020 By Sebastiaan Faber and Peter N. Carroll Dear Friends, No pasaron. They did not pass. As this issue goes to print, we are emerging from one of the most intense election seasons the United States has...Read more »
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“BLACK RADICALS NOT ONLY ANTICIPATED THE RISE OF FASCISM; THEY RESISTED BEFORE IT WAS CONSIDERED A CRISIS.” _AN INTERVIEW WITHROBIN D.G. KELLEY_
November 14, 2020 By Aaron B. Retish Robin D.G. Kelley is the Gary B. Nash Professor of American History at UCLA. The author of many books, including a biography of Thelonious Monk, he co-edited "This Ain't Ethiopia, But It'll Do": African-Americans and the Spanish Civil War (1990) and currently serves on ALBA’s Honorary Board.Read more »
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_HUMAN RIGHTS COLUMN BY ISABEL ALLENDE:_ A DARK TIME November 14, 2020 By Isabel Allende Isabel Allende, the Chilean author and philanthropist, spoke at ALBA’s Lincoln Brigade Monument Celebration on September 12, 2020. This is what she said.Read more »
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WHY DO SO MANY HISTORIANS FAIL TO UNDERSTAND THE WAR IN SPAIN? November 14, 2020 By Helen Graham The war of 1936-39 in Spain had much in common with the many other conflicts being waged in societies across Europe after the First World War, as those who sought to maintain old hierarchies clashed with those striving for change. Yet the evident similarity...Read more »
Posted in Features , Essays | No Comments » HOW AN ANTI-FASCIST PHOTOGRAPHER LANDED IN A REPUBLICAN AND FRANCOIST JAIL: THE LINI BUNJES STORY November 14, 2020 By Sílvia Marimon Molas and Montserrat Bailac The Dutch photographer Lini Bunjes was among the first foreign volunteers to join the defense of the Spanish Republic. A free-spirited and independent woman, she attracted suspicion fromboth...
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RECOVERING PLUNDERED REAL ESTATE FROM THE FRANCO FAMILY November 14, 2020 By Robert S. Coale From 1939 to 1975 a manor located in the province of La Coruña, Galicia, was used as a summer residence and office by the dictator Generalissimo Francisco Franco. For...Read more »
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FROM FUNDRAISERS TO THE BLACKLIST: HOLLYWOOD AND THE REPUBLICAN CAUSE November 14, 2020 By Rick Winston After the outbreak of the Civil War in July 1936, not a week went by in Hollywood without a fundraiser for the Republican cause. The film colony was passionately...Read more »
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MARTHA GRAHAM’S DANCES FOR SPAIN November 14, 2020 By Lourdes Dávila In June, the Martha Graham Dance Company performed Immediate Tragedy, a long-lost solo piece that Graham performed in 1937 in support of the Spanish Republic. Its reconstruction was only...Read more »
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_BOOK REVIEW_ FIGHTING FASCIST SPAIN: WORKER PROTEST FROM THE PRINTINGPRESS
November 14, 2020 By Eric Smith _Fighting Fascist Spain: Worker Protest from the Printing Press_, by Montse Feu. Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of IllinoisPress, 2020.
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THE OBSERVER “REVIEWS” NEW IB BOOK October 15, 2020 By Manus O'Riordanand Jim Jump
Guardian Newspapers has published two reviews of the new book by Giles Tremlett, ‘The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War’. On Saturday 3 October, The Guardian’sreview...
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A FOCUSED STUDY ON AMERICAN JEWISH VOLUNTEERS SALUD Y SHALOM: AMERICAN JEWS IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR October 6, 2020 By Chris Brooks The University of Washington’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies added part of Dr. Joseph Butwin’s oral history project to its Digital Jewish Studies online collection in 2018. Butwin noted...Read more »
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THE BOTWINS TODAY BY IRVING WEISSMAN September 10, 2020 By Chris Brooks Originally published in The Volunteer, V. 1, No. 1 1978. September 21, 1938, Hill 281, Sierra de Caballs. “The men of the Botwin and Shevchenko companies distinguished themselves in...Read more »
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WHO FOUGHT FOR FRANCO? August 29, 2020 By Francisco Leira Castiñeira Who were the soldiers who served in Franco’s insurgent army? Until recently, few historians or social scientists thought to ask this question. A new book complicates long-held assumptions.Read more »
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I am searching for information about Morton ‘Vic’ Vicker. I have reason to believe he was in the International Brigades during the Spanish Civil War. I did not meet Vic until November of 1969 in Aguacate, Cuba, on the first Venceremos Brigade.* We bunked together, cut cane together, and spent a lot of time talking. Iwas...
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_DECEMBER PREVIEW:_ ROBIN D.G. KELLEY ON ANTIFASCISM, THEN & NOW0
October 23, 2020
A preview of a Q&A with Robin D.G. Kelley that will appear in the December issue of _The Volunteer_.Read more »
THE OBSERVER “REVIEWS” NEW IB BOOK0
October 15, 2020
Guardian Newspapers has published two reviews of the new book by Giles Tremlett, ‘The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War’. On Saturday 3 October, The Guardian’s review by Dan Hancox gave the following misleading impression: ‘The brigades drew an astonishing array of international literary figures – Orwell, Hemingway, Spender, Auden’. None of...Read more »
A FOCUSED STUDY ON AMERICAN JEWISH VOLUNTEERS SALUD Y SHALOM: AMERICAN JEWS IN THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR0
October 6, 2020
The University of Washington’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies added part of Dr. Joseph Butwin’s oral history project to its Digital Jewish Studies online collection in 2018. Butwin noted that “initiative” for the project came the “Vets themselves.” The web pages discuss the project’s history and offers individual pages on five veterans: George Watt,...Read more »
THE BOTWINS TODAY BY IRVING WEISSMAN0
September 10, 2020
Originally published in The Volunteer, V. 1, No. 1 1978. September 21, 1938, Hill 281, Sierra de Caballs. “The men of the Botwin and Shevchenko companies distinguished themselves in particular by their heroic defense of every inch of ground. They resisted to the last grenade when the enemy broke into their trenches. Nearly all...Read more »
DESTRUCTION OF HISTORY1
September 3, 2020
Edward Muscala’s hastily scrawled graffiti on the wall of the Hermitage of San Gregoria de Aguaviva during the battle of Teruel was preserved by the town. Ann Marti first reported on the inscription in her article In the Footsteps of the Lincoln-Battalion. This relic of the war was recently spray painted by vandals. Town...Read more »
ON THE DEATH OF MY COMRADE LARRY CANE (1915-1976) BY MANNY (SAMNAHMAN) HARRIMAN
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August 27, 2020
The Volunteer, Volume 1, No. 1, 1978. I cried when I heard you died, Larry. The tears flowed while rage racked my insides How could you die Larry not you not yet we are almost there! ...Read more »
BLACK VETS IN SPAIN BY JAMES YATES0
August 20, 2020
Originally published in The Volunteer, Volume1, No. 1, 1978. In view of the importance of the ‘Yates Project’ – refer to letter, national mailing of March ’78 – we called James Yates with some last minute questions. He very kindly sent us some last minute answers. Without a doubt his is a ‘work’ that...Read more »
WAS HERBERT RATHMAN A VETERAN?0
August 11, 2020
A long-time ALBA supporter contacted the office to inquire about a possible volunteer Herbert Rathman. In the mid-1960s, Rathman was the Science Chairman at Rhodes Preparatory School, a private school located at 11 West 54th Street in Manhattan. Rathman had told his students that he was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War andserved...
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ALBA STANDS IN SOLIDARITY1
June 3, 2020
ALBA wholeheartedly rejects white supremacy and racial inequality. We condemn the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis, and the systemic police brutality in black communities throughout the United States.Read more »
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