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Abe and Selma Bluestein (see picture), 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. Shown
here is one of the letters Abe wrote to Selma after she
returned home a few months before him.
The Abe Bluestein Papers were a gift to the Labadie
Collection in 1997.
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