The Volunteer for Liberty, V2, No. 31, September 5, 1938. The Company Commissar was harassed. The boys had been beefing; the grub line was snarled up and sounded like the Chicago stockyards in a thunderstorm. Up walks Comrade S… Said...
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The United States and World Fascism: Human Rights from the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond is the title of ALBA’s professional-development program for high school teachers in Social Studies, Spanish, Art, and Language Arts. Join us this Tuesday, November 6 at NYU’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (53 Washington Square South, New...
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Remember This by William P. Smith, Jr., Lincoln Battalion
Remember This, William P. Smith, Jr., Lincoln Battalion The Volunteer for Liberty, V. 1, No. 9, August 9, 1937 REMEMBER THIS I’ve heard you sobbing in the night And know your fears are not for fright But for the dead. Those Comrades lost...
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The Trek That Led to Spain by J. McGrandle
The Volunteer for Liberty, V2, No. 25, July 19, 1938 This anniversary wouldn’t seem complete to me without some mention of the “Vancouver Stiffs” who are fighting side by side with the rest of the International against fascism. It isn’t strange when...
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Lt. Cooper’s Haul by S. F.
The Volunteer for Liberty, V.2, No. 30, August 26, 1938 The special Brigade machine gun company came up to reinforce the 58th Battalion on July 28th. Saully Wellman its commissar had already been forced out of action by a shrapnel wound; and when on his very first day with the Lincolns the commander Capt....
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Far from Baghdad, Two Iraqi Volunteers in the XVth International Brigade
Information about the Iraqi volunteers was brought to light in the memoir of Flint water crisis whistleblower Mona Hanna-Attisha in her new book What the Eyes Don’t See: A Story of Crisis, Resistance, and Hope in an American City (Random House 2018). She devotes a number of pages to the Iraqi volunteers, especially to her...
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Finding My Father by Shirley J. Vail
At the age of 70, I gathered my courage and learned how to use the Internet. The first thing I wanted to do was find out anything I could about my father, Earl Frederick Vail. I began with Ancestry.com. Setting out on a journey that would take me I knew not where. I was...
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Snowman in Madrid, by M. Mickenberg
The Volunteer for Liberty, V. 2, No. 3, January 29, 1938 SNOWMAN IN MADRID Franco, Franco, Generalissimo, The little kids are making you Of effigies in snow. Of you, Franco, Generalissimo! They’re making you and...
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May 2018 IBMT magazine available online
Issue number 48 (2-2018) of ¡No Pasarán!, the magazine published by the International Brigades Memorial Trust (IBMT), magazine is now online and viewable in full color, here. The issue features interviews with Geoffrey Servante, almost certainly the last British International Brigade veteran, and eminent Spanish Civil War historian Paul Preston. The next issue of the magazine...
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On Beards –A Reply by M. H.
On Beards –A Reply, By M. H. The Volunteer for Liberty, V. 2, No. 2, January 13, 1938 In a recent issue of “The Volunteer for Liberty” we find a scholarly article deriding the many beard wearers in the International Brigades. A very astute and interesting article –to the beardless. But to the man...
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ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
Would it be possible to see the entire movie, short as it is. Many of us would appreciate that! WLK
We’re very sorry, but that’s not possible for now. We are working to issue it on a DVD, though. Meanwhile, the whole film can be seen at the ICP in New York, as part of the Mexican Suitcase exhibit. It will also be screened at MoMA next week.
Do you happen to have the dates when the film was made? Where in Spain did Cartier-Bresson film?
See: http://www.albavolunteer.org/2010/03/henri-cartier-bresson-footage-
We’d like to hear when the DVD of ‘With the Lincoln Brigade’ is likely to be ready, and whether we can screen it in the London Socialist Film Co-op’ programme of screenings followed by structured, educational and informative discussions.
I look forward to hearing from you.