Zum #AmnestyInternationalDay heute ein Lektüretipp aus dem #Heftarchiv:
»politische gefangene«, #WerkstattGeschichte 80/2019, im Thementeil (hg. v. Gabriele Metzler & Annelie Ramsbrock) Beiträge u.a. zu #Hungerstreiks Inhaftierter in der #WeimarerRepublik & in #Nordirland, zu Kommunisten in #Haft im #Franco-#Spanien u. zu #GeorgeJackson.
https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/politische-gefangene/
@cbcnews-rss.bsky.social
France 
wants to lead Europe’s defence. It won’t be easy
An emboldened now Putin after a cessation to hostilities to rebuild will be back for the Baltics ~ 2030 on the menu 
Today in Labor History May 3, 1937: The May Days began in Catalonia. This was a counterrevolution by the Spanish Republican government against radical workers and anarchists. Prior to this, the communists, socialists and anarchists had been allied against Franco’s nationalists. However, anarchist workers and their militias controlled most industries, which they had collectivized, while the communists controlled the central government and finances. As a result, this brought the various groups into conflict. To make matters worse, the Communist Party of Spain was taking orders from Moscow. And they wanted to separate the two struggles: revolution against the ruling class versus war against the nationalists. In contrast, the POUM and the anarchists saw the two struggles as one and the same. The anarchist faction included the Friends of Durruti Group and the CNT (a confederation of anarcho-syndicalist labor unions).
On #ThisDayInHistory in 1937, the #Nazi Condor Legion, working for #Franco's parafascist faction in the #SpanishCivilWar, bombed and destroyed the #Basque town of #Gernika. #Stuka dive-bombers practically erased it in a horrific assault meant to test German preparedness for war.
‘A window of freedom’: When ‘Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii’ sneaked into Franco’s Spain.
The mythical documentary by the British band, which is being re-released, arrived in art-house cinemas as a psychedelic experience when the end of the dictatorship was already in sight.
i remind myself of #fascist #spain under #franco and look at spain today
doesn't mean spain is utopia today
doesn't mean "it's going to be ok, relax"
it means getting better is real
but:
1. we have a lot fucking work to do
2. there is a lot of fucking suffering ahead of us
3. do not accept #pessimism #cynicism nor #capitulation
as long as we *fight* we can right this rotten ship
biggest ally of #maga:
lazy indifference
get off your fucking asses and fight
En parlant de Guernica, une chanson qui donne du cœur.
The Clash - Spanish Bombs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUi0YdGXle4
« Spanish songs in Andalucía
The shooting site in the days of '39
Oh, please, leave the ventana open
Federico Lorca is dead and gone
Bullet holes in the cemetery walls
The black cars of the Guardia Civil »
Les républicains espagnols, pour toujours dans nos mémoires.
Et Joe Strummer, toujours impeccable. 
I didn’t know this. What was Franco’s reaction, I wonder. If any. #WWII #españa #spain #franco #japan #phillipines https://mastodon.social/@onthisday/114210360969184463
@alexlunaview also #Erdogan violates so many standards re: #HumanRights that it's impossible to let #Turkey ascend without him in #jail and his regime abolished!
Whereas #Canada does fulfill all the criteria one could throw at them!
Franco or Putin?
"Pain pervades not only your life as a politician and soldier, but even your recreation. You paint shipwrecks; your favorite sport is slaughtering rabbits, doves, fish. Your biography is full of corpses…in Africa, in Asturias, during the Civil War and after…an entire life covered with the decay of death. I picture you surrounded by legless doves, black mourning garlands, dreams that chill the blood, death."
Listen to "Mas Maravilla" (symphonie for electric guitar no. 4) by #ArtFED & #ResInt
https://on.soundcloud.com/Y97oV
#AudioCollage #Franco #Putin #SoundCloud #Political #Activist #Rock #Music
#Antifascist #Quotes
There was a legal theorist called #carlschmitt who provided justification for this. He survived after 1945 but chose to live in #spain under #franco . His thinking bears a resemblance to unitary executive theory.
@KleineMaulwurf +9001%
Aber okay, #Batista wurde auch mit #Bundesverdienstkreuz geehrt NACHDEM dessen #Diktatur zusammengebrochen war und er nach #Franco-#Spanien floh!
Nel bel mezzo della guerra civile spagnola, nel 1937, il regime del dittatore fascista #Franco bombardò la città #basca di Guernica, con l'aiuto di Germania e Italia.
In meno di 4 ore furono sganciate bombe per un totale di 22tonnelate e la città fu completamente distrutta.
Centinaia di persone furono uccise nel bombardamento, che sconvolse il mondo intero e divenne simbolo della crudeltà di quei tempi. Guernica fu immolata nel fuoco della propaganda fascista e nella memoria storica è la testimonianza della fragilità della giustizia in guerra.
Il famoso capolavoro di #PabloPicasso, “Guernica”, è diventato un simbolo della distruzione e dell'orrore della guerra.
Nel bombardamento di Guernica, nessun pilota si rifiutò di obbedire agli ordini. 
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Dictator of #Spain, #FranciscoFranco, died in 1975 on #ThisDayInHistory. 500,000 died in the #SpanishCivilWar that brought him to power, and he had 200,000 more killed, but #Nixon had no trouble calling #Franco a "loyal friend & ally" ruling with "firmness & fairness". #Antifa
On the advice of this helpful website “Searching for my grandfather”
https://rebelion.org/como-buscar-a-tu-abuelo/
I have sent an email off to the government department to see if they would reproduce the court case summary or any other information to see if I can confirm that it is actually him.
We'll see!
Further googling...Found the official government record of those lists that the first website is pulled from. The full Excel sheet is 35MB just of names. 433055 rows!
My abuelo is on row 9466.
Interestingly, I searched his second surname (apellido), not nearly as many hits (aprox 30 vs. >100) but almost all from Valencia, and mostly earlier, 1938-1942. Some strange hits in the 1960s?
https://patrimoniocultural.defensa.gob.es/es/centros/archivo-general-historico-defensa/documentos
Did some googling today. Found a “list of defendants" in francoists military tribunals.
https://www.combatientes.es/ListadodeProcedimientosTMT1A.htm
I know my grandfather was imprisoned more than once after the Civil War. Late 40s and 50s before they left for France and Canada. I know he generally used only one surname unlike most Spaniards who use two.
This doc lists 84 people by the name Alemany. There are a few Jose Alemany's from Valencia. Only one with just one surname.
#Franco #España #SpanishCivilWar #Dictatorship #Fascism
Via @DoomsdaysCW
L'historien Lawrence Britt identifie 14 caractéristiques du #Fascisme communes aux régimes de #Hitler, #Mussolini, #Franco, #Suharto, & #Pinochet :
1. nationalisme fort
2. mépris pour les droits humains
3. désignat° de boucs émissaires
4. priorité à l'armée
5. sexisme rampant
6. médias sous contrôle
7. obsess° pour la sécurité nationale
8. relig° & gouvernement sont liés
9. protect° des grandes entreprises
10. démantèlement des syndicats
11. mépris pour les intellectuels & les artistes
12. obsess° pour le crime & sa répress°
13. népotisme & corrupt°
14. élections truquées
On en est à combien en France en 2024 ?
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2017/08/23/lawrence-britt-14-characteristics-of-fascism/
Stephen Wolfe grew up in Napa, California,
and his father was an admirer of the right-wing pundit and erstwhile GOP presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.
After attending West Point and serving in the Army, Wolfe earned advanced degrees before leaving academia to
“do the Wendell Berry thing”
in North Carolina with his wife and four kids.
Over the summer, Wolfe, 41, agreed to speak with me on the condition that I refer to him as “Dr. Wolfe”
and call him an “expert on Christian nationalism.”
The Dr. Wolfe I spoke with was a more muted version of the firebrand I’d watched online.
He said his ideal version of America would be led by a Caesar figure.
Gay marriage would be strictly prohibited.
Women would not be allowed to vote
—instead, men would vote for their households.
When I brought up the bit from his book about heretics being killed, he grew annoyed.
“I do think it’s permissible, in principle, for a state to suppress theological heresy,
but that doesn’t mean that it’s prudent or proper,
suitable in every circumstance or every tradition or way of life.”
The Founding Fathers, he added, had encouraged religious liberty,
so killing heretics would not be appropriate in the United States that we inhabit.
We turned to remarks he had made at a recent conference convened by Brian Sauvé:
“I think we need to reflect on this idea of Judeo-Christianity,
or Judeo-Christian worldview,
or Judeo-Christian whatever,
and really eradicate that from our thinking.
Because if we say that America is a
Judeo-Christian country,
then it can’t be a Christian country, okay?”
What role, I asked him, would Jews play?
After a deep sigh, he told me that they would be allowed to “exercise their religion freely.”
We spoke a week before Vance’s RNC speech,
and Wolfe’s remarks helped me understand what the TheoBros heard in Vance’s phrase about
"America as a people".
The founders, Wolfe noted, intended for their country to be “Anglo-Protestant with an American inflection.”
America, he continued, is “a place of settlement and rootedness,
but it’s an open ethnicity in which people can become one of us.”
Which is to say that, like some others, Wolfe is not necessarily opposed to the idea of nonwhite people in America
—as long as they agree to assimilate to the Anglo-Protestant dominant culture.
In this telling, America is not a pluralistic society at all,
but rather one in which there exists an uneasy truce between Christians and those they reluctantly tolerate.
Toward the end of our conversation, I asked Wolfe what motivated him.
“I want Christians to be more assertive and to recognize the Christian heritage of the American way of life,
and to seek to restore that,” he said.
“This is a Christian country, and we’ve got to work to restore it to what it once was"
In his keynote address at Sauvé’s conference, titled “Why Multicultural Pluralism Fails and What to Build Instead,”
Wolfe called the concept of America as a melting pot
“an early 20th-century idea cooked up by a Jew in New York who despised the confident Anglo-Protestant establishment.”
WASPs were the “distinct ethnicity” of America, he insisted,
and America should only welcome those who aspired to assimilate.
As he put it, “This is our homeland, and we welcome you on the condition of conformity.”
Or, in the words of JD Vance, America “is a group of people.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/theobros-jd-vance-christian-nationalism/
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