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RADICAL RESPONSES TO THE GREAT
DEPRESSION The Spanish Civil War |
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Photograph. Abe and Selma Bluestein aboard the Antonia on their way to Spain, April 1, 1937. Abe and Selma Bluestein (pictured), New York
anarchists, traveled to Spain in 1937, arriving in Barcelona shortly
before the now famous May Days, when anarchists and Marxists were
confronted by Communist and government forces in a bloody battle. Abe
reported on the War for Freie Arbeiter Stimme, the
long-running Yiddish anarchist weekly in New York and Selma was
involved with the artist's community. Abe also served as information
officer for the CNT (Confederación Nacional del
Trabajo/National Confederation of Labor), gave radio broadcasts for
the anarchist fighters in Barcelona and other parts of Catalonia, and
sent weekly news bulletins to U.S. and British publications. |