Brian Feeney on Friday: From Spain to Co Down, governments will never be able to ‘draw a line under the past’
Many similar societies and associations across Spain have also been campaigning for decades to have remains returned. It’s 89 ...
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SPAIN: 70% Strike
Chief of the industrial hives of Spain is Barcelona ... The tax was levied by decree of Dictator-Premier-General Primo de Rivera, paunchy, florid, strong, who proposes to extend State assistance ...
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Spain’s PSOE-Sumar government calls for record military spending without parliamentary debate
It glorifies the legacy of General Francisco Franco, who led a coup and commanded fascist forces during the Civil War, massacring hundreds of thousands of workers. It also defends Spain’s ...
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Campaign to build Spanish Civil War memorial
A memorial honouring volunteers who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War would help bring a city ... against right-wing Nationalists led by General Franco. A new campaign aims to ...
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Francisco Franco
he was named “Generalissimo”—a general among generals. During the Civil War and later, as the ruler of Spain, Franco was single-minded in his drive to decimate the Spanish left. Under his ...
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Reflections on the Spanish Civil War
In 1938 long before he had written "Animal Farm" and "Nineteen Eighty four," George Orwell published an account of his experiences in the Spanish Civil War an account which was universally as ...