At the Dublin Anarchist Bookfair, Kevin Doyle interviewed the young Spanish Anarchist Manuel García:

We are very involved with the movement to recover historical memory.  But not only in the sense of identifying the victims and what happened in this and that situation.  As anarchists we are also involved in order...
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The Film Archive(d) has posted the full 1983 TV debut of George Selden, in which the legendary journalist recounts his decades-long career, including his coverage of the Spanish Civil War:

Although George Seldes was one of the giants in the history of American journalism, particularly in the field of press...
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In one their largest projects so far, the Spanish anthropolist Francisco Etxeberria and the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory have concluded the exhumation of a mass grave at La Pedraja (province of Burgos) holding the bodies of more than 100 individuals executed by the rebel forces in the first month of the...
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In a letter to the Washington Post, W. Royal Stokes fondly recalls Professor Knox's classes at Yale:

Professor Knox never spoke in class of his wartime experiences, namely, manning a machine gun in the Spanish Civil War in 1936 or parachuting behind enemy lines in France and commanding an infantry...
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The historian and activist Ceferino Álvarez died on August 27, La Voz de Asturias reports--less than two years after his legendary father, Ceferino Alvarez Rey, aka "El Jefe," who passed away in January last year. Álvarez, who published widely, was a leader of the Asociacion de Descendientes del Exilio and the movement...
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The UK National Archives have made available for public viewing 170 more Security Service files, including files on the International Brigade Association. The Archives' website provides access to other SCW-related materials as well, including the transcripts of interviews with Maurice Levine, one of the few Jewish volunteers in the British batallion....
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Select images from the legendary collection of Magnum, founded after World War II by Robert Capa, Chim, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, will be available as e-postcards through Paperless Post, a company specializing in electronic stationary, PR Newswire reports:

"We are excited to be collaborating with some of the most...
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The highly respected Spanish Civil War scholar Ángel Viñas, who recently completed an authoritative trilogy on the Republic and whose edited collection of essays on foreign diplomats during the war was published this summer, shares his findings on Stalin's role in Spain on WAIS, the listserv founded by the late Ronald Hilton:

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Legendary animated  film director Hayao Miyazaki said in an interview that he is considering a new film set during the Spanish Civil War. The film would be a sequel to his Porco Rosso, in which an Italian fighter ace is cursed with a pig's face after watching the spirits of killed pilots rise...
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