Pianist Dred Scott, well-known to those who have attended ALBA's New York event in past years, stages a one-man labor protest:
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Pianist Dred Scott, well-known to those who have attended ALBA's New York event in past years, stages a one-man labor protest:
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The Library of Congress has announced that Philip Levine is the country's next Poet Laureate. In 2001, Levine delivered ALBA's fourth annual Bill Susman lecture, in which he spoke on "Poetry and the Spanish Civil War" and acknowledged his debt, as poet and citizen, to Federico García Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Miguel Hernández and...
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The DocuWeeks festival opening today in New York and Los Angeles will feature Trisha Ziff's Mexican Suitcase, the documentary about the recovery of 4,500 negatives from the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and "Chim" (David Seymour). Friends of ALBA are entitled to a special discount for the August 27th screening...
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August 14, 24, 25, 26, 28: New York International Fringe Festival.
The play is a roller coaster journey through Robeson's remarkable and eventful life, and highlights how his radical activism caused him to be disowned and disremembered, even by the leaders and descendants of the civil rights movement.
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Getty Images commemorates the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War with a selection of more than 100 powerful images by photojournalists. See the anthology here.
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A new historical drama series on Chilean public television, set during the Pinochet years in order to retell the first discoveries of the regime's widespread use of torture and disappearances, is drawing large numbers of viewers and exasperating some on the Right, the Associate Press reports:
In "The Archives of the Cardinal,"...
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North Wales International Brigader Tom Jones, also known as Twm Sbaen (Tom Spain), will be honoured at a ceremony at the Cymru Cuba stand at the National Eisteddfod at Wrexham at 3:30pm on 4 August. Twm was a miner for 14 years and served in the British Anti-Tank Battery in Spain. In later years...
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On the Norwegian island of Utoya, scene of that horrific massacre of young members of the Labor Party by a right-wing Christian terrorist, there is a plaque, tacked on to a tree, honoring the four Norwegian members of the International Brigades who were killed in the Spanish Civil War. Apparently, the young campers had...
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Dan Carrier remembers the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War with a portrait of his great-uncle Nat Cohen, IBer from the UK, and some of his buddies:
A garment worker from the East End, he had already seen political street-fighting, was a regular draw at Communist Party meetings...
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Justice, Spanish Style
According to today's issue of Público:
1. Judge Baltasar Garzón initiates an investigation into the forced disappearance and/or assasination of 113,000 Spaniards by Francoist forces.
2. Judge Baltasar Garzón is accused of judicial malfeasance (prevaricación) for having initiated that investigation, and is suspended from his post as a Judge.
3. An Argentine judge, invoking...
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