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Catalan Government Identifies IB Remains

August 30, 2023
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Catalan Government Identifies IB Remains

As part of the Alvah Bessie Program, launched last year, the government of Catalonia has confirmed the identities and places of death of 212 International Brigade volunteers from Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands who died in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War. Next, the government will attempt to document the place of death for...
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ALBA Features National History Day Finalist

August 30, 2023
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ALBA Features National History Day Finalist

In June, Iago Macknik-Conde, the New York high school senior featured in our last issue, performed his play about the Lincoln Brigade at the National History Day competition for Senior Individual Performance in Maryland, winning an Outstanding Entry medal. Together with his mother, Dr. Susana Martínez-Conde, Iago wrote ALBA’s summer fundraising appeal and recorded...
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Looking Ahead: Susman Lecture and Fall ALB Tribute

August 30, 2023
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Looking Ahead: Susman Lecture and Fall ALB Tribute

Labor Activist Karen Nussbaum to be Featured in Susman Lecture November 14 This year’s Susman Lecture will feature longtime labor activist Karen Nussbaum, co-founder in 1972 of 9to5: Organization of Women Office Workers and founding director of Working America. Born in Chicago Illinois into an activist family, Nussbaum joined the anti-war movement as a...
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From Sacco & Vanzetti to Lorca: A Busy ALBA Summer

August 30, 2023
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From Sacco & Vanzetti to Lorca: A Busy ALBA Summer

Sacco and Vanzetti: Film Screening and Discussion Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti—two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920 and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial—are the subject of Sacco and Vanzetti, a documentary by ALBA board member Peter Miller that was screened and discussed at...
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An Injury to One is an Injury to All: ALBA Spotlights Labor

August 19, 2023
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<em>An Injury to One is an Injury to All:</em> ALBA Spotlights Labor

As the labor movement occupied the front pages, in other words, so did news about fascism spreading across Europe. It was no coincidence that many union members saw their struggle as part of a united front against fascism and volunteered to fight in Spain.
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ALBA Welcomes New Board Member

May 18, 2023
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ALBA Welcomes New Board Member

At its annual board meeting in early May, ALBA welcomed its newest member, Steve Birnbaum, a Bay Area labor attorney specializing in workers’ compensation under the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Act. Steve has long been fascinated with the history of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade and will be a welcome addition to the board. For...
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The History and Mystery of a Photograph

May 18, 2023
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The History and Mystery of a Photograph

This photograph of Lincoln brigaders Bill Aalto, Alex Kunslich and Irv Goff, with a Spanish comrade, depicts something rare, possibly unique. But unfortunately, all physical copies of it are lost—or, at least, their whereabouts are unknown.
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Letter from ALBA: On Confusion and Clarity

May 18, 2023
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<em>Letter from ALBA:</em> On Confusion and Clarity

The present is confusing because we don’t know what the future will look like. Still, some things are crystal clear.
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Honoring the Mac-Paps and Leo Gordon in Azuara, Spain

May 18, 2023
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Honoring the Mac-Paps and Leo Gordon in Azuara, Spain

Eighty-five years ago, a dozen volunteers, part of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the International Brigades, lost their lives while providing cover for their retreating comrades in the town of Azuara. On March 11, 2023, Azuara hosted a tribute to these long-forgotten anti-Fascist fighters,
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Story of the Lincolns Sweeps History Day Competition

May 17, 2023
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Story of the Lincolns Sweeps History Day Competition

Iago Macknik-Conde, a high school student from New York City, performed his new one-man play, The Abraham Lincoln Brigade: The First Desegregated American Fighting Force for the National History Day competition this spring. He won 1st place for Senior Individual Performance at the New York City Regional and New York State Contests, moving to...
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