Fighting Fascist Spain
Fighting Fascist Spain In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created Espa a Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in…
Specifikacia Fighting Fascist Spain
Fighting Fascist Spain
In the 1930s, anarchists and socialists among Spanish immigrants living in the United States created Espa a Libre (Free Spain) as a response to the Nationalist takeover in their homeland. Espa a Libre proved both visionary and durable, charting an alternate path toward a modern Spain and enduring until democracy's return to the country in 1977.Montse Feu merges Espa a Libre's story with the drama of the Spanish immigrant community's fight against fascism. Worker-oriented and avowedly antifascist, the grassroots periodical raised money for refugees and political prisoners while advancing left-wing culture and politics.
In addition to showing how workers' culture and politics shaped their antifascism, Feu The periodical emerged as part of a transnational effort to link migrants and new exiles living in the United States to antifascist networks abroad.