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Homage to the Victims of Franco - Commemorative Booklet

Red Danny | 04.09.2006 17:55

A booklet has been published by north west trades unionists to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War 1936-2006.

Published by the Greater Manchester 70th Anniversary Spanish Civil War Group and edited by the veteran anarchist Brian Bamford, this booklet £1(£1.50 post included) contains an introduction by Stuart Christie who served 3 years of a 20 year gaol sentence in Spain for his involvement with a Spanish anarchist group that made the last attempt on the life of the dictator General Franco in 1964. Other sections include an historical account of the events which led up to the war in 1936 and a section on the volunteers from Greater Mnchester, who went to Spain to fight in the war. There is also an interview with Pedro Cuadrado, from Bolton, who was in the Catalan Republican Guard in Spain 1936-39. This booklet can be obtained c/o 46 Kingsland Road, Rochdale, Lancs, OL11 3HQ. E-mail:  northernvoices@hotmail.com

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Dictators

05.09.2006 00:21

I'd be more inclined to celebrate the Trades' Union movement's opposition to Franco if its oppostion to the dictatorship in the Soviet Union had been as vocal and practical. Franco was a horrible dictator, yet before and during the time he came to power the working class were suffering terribly in Russia. There was no romanticised International Brigade for them. The Soviet Union was not a workers paradise, indeed it was the cause of millions of premature working class deaths, and Russia still is today thanks to the mess the communists made of it. Even today, New Labour, which is largely financed by the Trades' Union movement, has very little to say about the appalling working conditions and contempt for human rights in China, the biggest and by far the most important of the undemocratic, so-called socialist countries on the planet. Even stranger, the fringe 'socialist' groups don't seem to have a bad word to say about China either.

simon