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Here are some suggestions for further reading about the role of the American seamen and longshoremen in the support of the Second Spanish Republic

 
As in many other countries, maritime workers on the American Waterfront mobilised support for labour actions; refusing to load arms for Franco or sail on ships carrying cargo consigned to the fascists.

American Seamen and Longshoremen – "Shipowners Plot Against Spanish Democracy" af Roy Hudson, 1936Roy Hudson: “Shipowners Plot Against Spanish Democracy”, 1936



 

 

 

 

"True Americans: A Tribute to American Maritime Workers Who Fought for World Democracy in the Trenches of Spain" by Roy Hudson, 1939Roy Hudson: “True Americans: a Tribute to American Maritime Workers Who Fought for World Democracy in the Trenches of Spain'”, 1939

 

 

 

 

 

American Seamen and Longshoremen – "Workers at the Waterfront" by Bruce Nelson, 1990Nelson, Bruce: “Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s” (Working Class in American History), 1990 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War" by Eric R. SmithSmith, Eric R.: “American Relief Aid and the Spanish Civil War“, 2013