Click on the pic below to check out a fantastic slide show by Magnum of images from the Spanish Revolution…

Images from the Spanish Revolution (1936 - 1939)…

Paco de Lucia…

[6-9-1936] Sympathizers of the Spanish revolutionary government held a mass demonstration in London’s Trafalgar Sq, to lobby the British government into taking action in support of the Republicans [Photo from Socialist Worker Archives].

Spain’s supporters in the streets of London, before the match started…

Scenes from the (1936-9) Spanish Revolution…

A la mierda , reaccionarios
Me la suda todo lo que puedas ladrar
Siempre amé la libertad…
go to hell, reactionaries
all your barking just rolls off my back
i’ve always loved freedom…
SKA-P

Ska-P: Intifada…

Click on the poster below to check out a visual gallery of the Spanish Revolution (1936-9)…

[To the Barricades]

Click on the pic below to check out very interesting photography and art works by Spanish activist James d’Urgell…

اضغط على الصورة أعلاه

Ken Loach’s masterpiece “Land and Freedom”…

Here is piece written by Leon Trotsky, in August 2, 1931, as the Spanish strike movement was escalating, later to explode into a full fledged workers’ revolution… I think there are some lessons to be learned for Socialists today in Egypt, specifically the part I’m quoting below…
First of all, it is necessary to make clear [...]

John Molyneux wrote two blog postings, providing brief historical background on the rise and fall of the Third Communist International.
Click below to read the first posting…

[Above: Panel of Diego Rivera's mural at Unity House, depicting the labor movement and labor radicalism. Addressing the struggle between labor and capital, the mural includes images of Karl Marx, [...]

A tribute to US volunteers who fought in 1937-8 on the side of the workers’ republic in Spain during the civil war (1936-9). Now these are some US war veterans I take my hat off to, but not to the Hooowah-shrieking crackheads in Iraq and Afghanistan today…