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Spanish Court investigates Italian involvement in SCW

February 6, 2013
By Reid Palmer
Spanish Court investigates Italian involvement in SCW

The Barcelona Provincial Court has ordered the first judicial investigation into the aerial targeting of civilian populations during the Spanish Civil War.
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Sam Levinger book published in Spanish translation

February 6, 2013
By Sebastiaan Faber
Sam Levinger book published in Spanish translation

Laurie Levinger writes: It is a great pleasure and honor to have been invited by AABI to give a reading from my book about my uncle Sam Levinger, Love and Revolutionary Greetings: An Ohio Boy in the Spanish Civil War (click here for the review in the Volunteer). Justin Byrne, Agustin Lozano (translator) and myself will...
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Guatemalan justice, at last

February 5, 2013
By Burt Cohen

No one would have thought it possible. Prosecution in an international court would have been stunning enough. But now the amazing has happened: President Reagan's buddy, Guatemala's dictator in the early 80s, General Efrain Ríos Montt is on trial for genocide and crimes against humanity in Guatemala itself! He is...
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Memory Without Borders: ARMH (3)

February 3, 2013
By James D. Fernández
Memory Without Borders:  ARMH (3)

Jonah Rubin is a young scholar working on his PhD thesis in Anthropology at the University of Chicago.  If all goes well, in a couple of years, his work, tentatively titled  “‘All of Spain is One Big Mass Grave’: Death, Memory, and Democracy Seventy-Five Years After the Spanish Civil War” will take its place...
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La Marea remembers Lincoln Brigade

January 25, 2013
By Sebastiaan Faber
<em>La Marea</em> remembers Lincoln Brigade

The second issue of Spain's new cooperative, employee-owned magazine La Marea includes a short piece by me, "Legitimate Anger," reflecting on the powerful interview with Lincoln vet Abe Osheroff, produced some years ago by Jim Fernández and Katie Halper for the exhibit Facing Fascism: New York and the Spanish Civil...
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La Marea: Spain’s rebellion moves to print

January 24, 2013
By Sebastiaan Faber
La Marea: Spain’s rebellion moves to print

Every crisis is an opportunity. “The debt crisis and years of recession have hit Spanish media hard: some 70 news outlets have closed in the last four years and a reported 9,000 journalists are currently without work,” Michael Levitin writes for Truthout and Occupy.com in a piece about the new, employee-owned, cooperative Spanish magazine...
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New Hampshire: Is liberation in sight?

January 24, 2013
By Burt Cohen
New Hampshire: Is liberation in sight?

When at the NH state house, testifying on a bill to repeal our Stand Your Ground law, I decided to check on our old friend described in my last blog: the plaque. Since the 2001 adventure, that chunk of bronze has been sitting in a vault just off from the room where the Senate...
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ALBA on Facebook, Twitter and Online

January 23, 2013
By Nina Watkins
ALBA on Facebook, Twitter and Online

The other day I was at the archives reading a letter from Veteran Sidney Rosenblatt to Estelle Katz. Sydney was writing about how the letters he received from home gave him the strength to carry on. His writing was beautiful and his story came alive as I held his letter in my...
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Dr. Josep Maria Massons (1913-2012)

January 18, 2013
By Magí Crusells
Dr. Josep Maria Massons (1913-2012)

Dr. Josep Maria Massons Esplugas, former head of the surgical team for the International Brigades, passed away in Barcelona on November 10, 2012. Born in Valls (Tarragona, Catalonia) on January 18, 1913, he received his medical degree from the University of Barcelona in 1934 and went on to earn a surgical position at the...
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Memory Without Borders: ARMH (2)

January 16, 2013
By James D. Fernández
Memory Without Borders: ARMH (2)

Today the Spanish press covers another success of the ARMH , which to date has carried out 153 exhumations of mass graves and recovered the remains of 1,330 victims of Francoist violence. Spain is second only to Cambodia in terms of the numbers...
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