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21 October 2020
Books that inspired me: For Whom the Bell Tolls
"I have fought for what I believe in for a year now. If we win here we will win everywhere. The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
8 May 2019
Spanish elections - new upheavals underline need for a revolutionary socialist alternative
To celebrate the defeat of the right and proclaim a "left victory" is not enough. The right and far right have not gone away
13 March 2019
Memorial to working-class fighters who fought fascism
During the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War in 2016, the International Brigades Memorial Trust asked that areas which have a memorial or plaque to commemorate it by laying a flower or a wreath.
17 October 2018
Libres y Combativas: striking for women's rights in the Spanish state
On 8 March 2018 - International Women's Day - an unprecedented strike against sexism and women's oppression took place across the Spanish state. Libres y Combativas played a central role. Now, the campaign is building for a new student strike on 14 November. The Socialist spoke to Ana Garcia, an activist in Libres y Combativas
16 May 2018
Spain: Student general strike against sexist, capitalist 'justice' system
The general student strike on 10 May, called against the shameful light sentencing of the 'wolfpack' rapists, was a great success. More than one million students emptied classrooms and more than 100,000 attended over 60 demonstrations
2 May 2018
Spain: 'We don't want to be brave, we want to be free!'
Protests rocked Spain on 26 April and for a further two days following the sentencing of 'La Manada' - five men accused of raping an 18-year-old woman during the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016.
4 April 2018
Catalonia: new Francoist coup - general strike now!
The arrest of exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has reignited the Catalan independence struggle
14 March 2018
Spain: millions on streets against sexism and capitalist oppression
The 8 March feminist strike in the Spanish state was unprecedented. Never has there been such a deep and massive mobilisation against the oppression of working class women
8 November 2017
Spain: Madrid rally celebrates October revolution
250 workers and youth attended a vibrant rally to celebrate the centenary of the October Russian revolution in Madrid
24 October 2017
Editorial of the Socialist, issue 968
The dramatic events that have shaken Catalonia and the Spanish state have national and international implications, writes Socialists must back Catalan struggle for self-determination.
11 October 2017
Catalonia: Workers can finish what Puigdemont won't
While thousands amassed outside, Puigdemont was asking the Catalan parliament to agree to 'suspend' a declaration of independence
2 October 2017
Exemplary resistance by the people of Catalonia
Catalonia on 1st October saw scenes of a territory under military occupation. Thousands of police and civil guards - sent by the PP government - used savage repression
26 July 2017
Building workers' struggle and the forces of international socialism
A congress at the end of the CWI summer school - held in Barcelona - confirmed the unification of the CWI with Izquierda Revolucionaria (IR)
12 July 2017
School students' remarkable tribute to workers' Spanish Civil War bravery
Theatre review - Ocho: The story told of bravery and the cast itself showed a brave approach to the work
31 May 2017
Heroic socialist fighters who sang as ship went down - new memorial
'Solidarity Park' is a new community memorial project in Catalonia about the sinking of the ocean liner 'Ciudad de Barcelona' on 30 May 1937 during the Spanish Civil War
17 May 2017
Hull workers who fought in the Spanish Civil War
Theatre review: Ocho: Ocho tells the story of eight men from Hull who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. Jane Thornton is a Bafta-winning playwright who has worked with local historians and relatives of the eight men to weave together this fascinating tale, not only of the men but of the wives they left behind.
5 April 2017
Talk of Britain 'going to war' with Spain, EU politicians telling each other not to 'lose their cool' - can all seem surreal. The chaos shows that there is no cohesive approach to Brexit within the British or European ruling classes
22 March 2017
Precise, visceral account of working class heroism
Non-fiction review - 'Spain in our hearts': Left-leaning academic Adam Hochschild's remarkable latest work collects the visceral stories of Americans and Canadians who fought fascism as part of the 'International Brigades' in Spain's 1936-9 civil war
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