Amazing: My Grandad was recruited into the Spanish Communist Party by a Fascist double agent!!

Bad. Ass.

I wish I knew him when I was an adult!

And my Grandmother was equally awesome: It was because of well-connected clients at her hair dressing shop in Valencia that they got my Grandad out of jail on bail, then they fled to France (for a second time, the first time was right after the Civil War as teenagers until the Nazis invaded. After the second time, they came to Montreal.

I found the video about my family! It’s on Vimeo!!

https://vimeo.com/82239136
#family #franco #Spain #España #Communist #SpanishCivilWar

@chris

Great little vignette about your family’s history! Thanks

For info the Guardian recently featured this poignant story (you may have read this already so ‘apologies in advance if you have’):

“75 years on, #Franco’s cruel punishment haunts #Spanish mountain village: #Fascist troops cleared the settlement in punishment for aiding the guerrillas”

I mention it because my wife & I recently spent a lovely holiday in Torrox Costa, on the Costa del Sol coast, which is only a few miles south of the mountain village mentioned in the Guardian article.

We’re planning to go back to Torrox soon & hope to do some walking in the hills & visit the village in question!

What the Fascists did to those villagers & many other Republican supporters was horrific!

Great that your granddad managed to escape to Canada!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/13/75-years-on-francos-cruel-punishment-haunts-spanish-mountain-village

Notre école est entrée dans le réseau franco-allemand des "Écoles maternelles bilingues - Élysée 2020 / Elysée - Kitas 2020"! 🇨🇵🇩🇪

Merci aux familles et à toutes les personnes qui nous ont suivis dans cette aventure (qui ne fait que commencer 😁).

#Elysee2020 #franco-allemand #bilinguisme #lve #maternelle

Continuing the fight: Three anarchists from Spain in the British army, 1939-1945
But what was evident was that many of these veterans felt that Britain had let them down by not going after Franco next.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/08/07/continuing-the-fight-three-anarchists-from-spain-in-the-british-army-1939-1945/
#Anarchism #Franco #LondonAntifascism #SecondWorldWar #Spain #SpanishCivilWar

Lawrence W. Britt: 14 Characteristics of #Fascism

"Historian Lawrence Britt studied the fascist regimes of #Hitler (Germany), #Mussolini (Italy), #Franco (Spain), #Suharto (Indonesia), and #Pinochet (Chile) and found they had 14 elements in common. He calls these the identifying characteristics of fascism.

1. Powerful and Continuing #Nationalism
Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of #patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. #Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of #HumanRights
Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, and long incarcerations of prisoners.

3. Identification of #Enemies/#Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause
The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: #racial, #ethnic or #religious #minorities; #liberals; #communists; #socialists, #terrorists…

4. Supremacy of the #Military
Even when there are widespread #domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant #Sexism
The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional #gender roles are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is #homophobia and anti-#gay legislation.

6. Controlled #MassMedia
Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation or by sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Government #censorship and #secrecy especially in war time, are very common.

7. Obsession with #NationalSecurity
Fear of hostile foreign powers is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. #Religion and Government are Intertwined
Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.

9. Protection of #Corporate Power
The #industrial and business #aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Suppression of #Labor Power
Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor #unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for #Intellectuals and the #Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to #HigherEducation and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12. Obsession with #Crime and #Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the #police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant #Cronyism and #Corruption
Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. #Fraudulent #Elections
Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by #SmearCampaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control #voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

This post is a summary of Fascism, Anyone? by Lawrence W. Britt published in 2003 by Free Inquiry magazine."

https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/

And we are terrified!

#Spain’s early #election could put the far right in power for the first time since #Franco
@apnews_bot https://apnews.com/article/spain-election-sanchez-right-wing-coalition-vox-36dd3c10bf2b11e59c201371b004c63b?taid=64b63cefa756b90001e315ff

Nervature 12 Piantare un albero step-by-step https://radiowombat.net/nervature-12-piantare-un-albero-step-by-step/ #Nervature #giardino #terreno #albero #franco #specie #città

#Bales2023FilmChallenge June 30: Driving a #Corvette on #DriveYourCorvetteToWorkDay

#CarlosSaura's Peppermint Frappé (1967) takes Vertigo with a twist of Buñuel and serves it over an anti-#Franco​ist tale of self-doubting machismo obsessing over The Other. Even Elena's car, American instead of a much more obvious European model, dismisses fascist Spain's perceived superiority. Indeed the Generalisimo drove a Cadillac ☞ https://write.underworld.fr/settima/peppermint-frappe-1967

#film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

Lean y rían en este guión de una especie de sketch de Polonia TV3, en una entrevista exclusiva a Franco, ¡No os lo perdaís! https://oscariglesiascasado23.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/el-debate-inesperado-franco-y-el-acuerdo-del-pp-con-vox/ ⁠humor #PPVox #franco #sketch #polonia

Employee of the #Russian Embassy in #Spain, Budayev together with Spanish right-wing activists, paid tribute to the memory of the Russians who fought on the side of #Franco in the Civil War of 1936-1939. #press

InFranken | Bamberg: Franco 2023 - Wir haben die besten Fotos zur fantastischen Cosplay-Veranstaltung
#Bamberg #Cosplay #FrancoBamberg #Franco
https://www.infranken.de/bildergalerien/diashow/bamberg-franco-2023-wir-haben-die-besten-fotos-zur-fantastischen-cosplay-veranstaltung-cme-4000814

Wurden die spanischen Katholiken eigentlich jemals für die Verletzung *weltlicher* Werte zur Verantwortung gezogen?
#Klerikalfaschismus #Franco #DictaduraFranquista
https://taz.de/Verletzung-religioeser-Werte-in-Spanien/!5937956/

Interaktive Lerneinheit: Faschismus in Europa – V. 0.1
Diese Materialien wurden von Alexander König erstellt. Sie stehen unter einer Creative Commons-Lizenz (CC BY-SA 3.0 DE) und können unter bestimmten Voraussetzungen
https://blog.alexander-koenig.info/2023/05/29/interaktive-lerneinheit-faschismus-in-europa/
#Artefakte #Fcher #Geschichte #InteraktiveLerneinheit #LehrenUndLernen #Werkzeuge #Faschismus #FediLZ #Franco #H5P #Klasse9Troisime #Mussolini #OER #OpenTeach #Zwischenkriegszeit

🇪🇸 Nos dias 1 e 2 de Junho, vamos reunia duas dezenas de investigadores/as para um congresso em torno da guerra, pós-guerra e o regime franquista — uma análise do caso espanhol à luz de diferentes contextos históricos e/ou metodológicos.

ENTRADA LIVRE

ℹ https://bit.ly/3pUEJNG

#histodons #Spain #HistoryOfSpain #DifficultPasts #Espanha #HistóriaDeEspanha #PassadosTraumáticos #Franco

#Frauen, die sich nicht den Moralvorstellungen der #Franco-#Diktatur beugten, wurden in #Spanien bis in die 1970er-Jahre in „Besserungsanstalten“ des „#Patronato para la protección de la mujer“ zwangseingewiesen. Dort kam es oft zu psychischer oder physischer Gewalt. Consuelo García del Cid, die selbst zwei Jahre in einem solchen Heim verbringen musste, kämpft für die Aufarbeitung dieser weitgehend unbekannten Geschichte. #Weltreporterin @lajuliabcn hat sie interviewt.
https://www.riffreporter.de/de/international/spanien-frauen-unter-franco-besserungsanstalt-patronato-consuelo-garcia-del-cid

CAZA DE BRUJAS | Con Nombre de Podcast 04x36
La caza de brujas es tan antigua como la existencia de la sociedad.

https://luisbermejo.com/caza-de-brujas-con-nombre-de-podcast-04x36/

#brujas #caza #cultura #curiosidades #dni #documento nacional de identidad #edad media #edad moderna #editoriales #éxitos #franco #gabinetes #historia #inquisición #libros #misterio #museos #pecado #prostitución #rechazo #renacimiento #podcast #con nombre de podcast

Today in Labor History May 3, 1974: Spanish banker Balthasar Suarez was kidnapped in Paris by the "Groups of International Revolutionary Action" (GARI ) in an attempt to free 100 political prisoners in Spain being held by Franco.

#WorkingClass #LaborHisotry #anarchism #franco #fascism #antifascism #spain #prison #Revolutionary

[Lecture du moment] "Franco" de Bartolomé Bennassar

#Espagne #histoire #Franco

Buried in the #Rauda of #Granada are several #Moroccans who served under #Franco in the #Spanish Civil War. Unsurprisingly, after they served him faithfully, Franco cut them loose to languish after a few years in power.

Lest anyone be horrified by the lack of Working Class Solidarity, there is a centuries-long history of Christians and Muslims collaborating in unexpected ways in wars in this part of the world, depending on who was in power (and who was about not to be).

I believe these gravesites, which are unmarked in the traditional Moroccan manner, are where these men were laid to rest. I hope to confirm this someday Insha Allah.

See alt text for more info on why these sites look so short!

Also check out this podcast on the Moroccans who served under Franco.

#Maghrib #Andalucia #Spain #Burial #BurialPractices

https://historiaspodcast.org/2020/12/07/moroccans-in-the-spanish-civil-war/

@JordiVallcarca i els #soviètics... vull dir els #russos, són l'exercit de lliberació.
#Franco, en veritat, volia revertir el cop d'estat de perpetrat pel Front Popular a les urnes, és a dir, tornar a la legalitat de la Ceda, com Deu mana.
Els #palestins van provocar la ocupació dels seus territoris per #Israel per portar minifaldilla.
Finalment, Abraham Lincoln hauria d'haver permès l'esclavatge de milions de #negres per por d'encetar una guerra civil.