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Maria Busch

The Hi(story) of 1 May

|SPANISHSKY.DK 1 MAY 2019 | When we celebrate 1 May, many people merely perceive it as a tradition. They might have a vague idea of what it is about without giving much thought to it. In Copenhagen, people traditionally gather in… Continue Reading →

Harry Hynes and (Joe) Louis Joseph Bianca

|SPANISHSKY.DK 18 APRIL 2019 | Harry Hynes and Joe Bianca were among the American maritime workers who joined the International Brigades  – 250 from the New York waterfront alone and hundreds more from other poor waterfront cities. Both were killed… Continue Reading →

Notes on the History of The Internationale

|SPANISHSKY.DK 14 APRIL 2019 |   Pierre Degeyter and the workers’ choir La Lyre des Travailleurs Pierre Chrétier Degeyter was born 8 October 1848 in Gent, Belgium. Around the age of ten, after the family had relocated to France, he… Continue Reading →

The Spanish Monument – from Idea to Reality

|SPANISHSKY.DK 29 MARCH 2019 | The monument to the Danish volunteers who fell in the Spanish civil war, located in Churchill Park on the Esplanade in Copenhagen, has a chequered past. Chequered, in the sense that the will to raise… Continue Reading →

“The “The Address” – an Everyday Story from Madrid by Ruth Berlau

|SPANISHSKY.DK 23 MARCH 2019 |   I guess that he is ten, maybe twelve years old. The boy at the post office in Madrid, packet under his arm. He has a pale and narrow face and big, big eyes. He… Continue Reading →

Paulina Abramson and Adelina Kondratjeva – Two Sisters, One Struggle

|SPANISHSKY.DK 16 MARCH 2019 |     Paulina Abramson (married Mamsurova), 1915-2000 Paulina Abramson was born in 1915 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Russian emigrant parents. Their father being a communist, Paulina and her younger sister Adelina grew up in… Continue Reading →

The Unveiling of the Monument ‘Blockade-Runners to Spain’

| SPANISHSKY.DK 15 MARCH 2019 | Photo reportage of the unveiling of the monument ‘Blockade-Runners to Spain’ in Glasgow, 2 March 2019   By Allan Christiansen From hotel Alexander Thomson to the party’s offices at Waterloo Street, then to the monument… Continue Reading →

Bill Bailey – ein amerikanischer Freiwilliger im spanischen Bürgerkrieg

|SPANISHSKY.DK 2. FEBRUAR 2019 | Bill Bailey war Schauermann, Matrose, Gewerkschafter und Mitglied des Abraham Lincoln Battalion. Er ist jedoch vor allem unter US Amerikanern bekannt geworden, weil er 1936 die Hakenkreuz-Flagge vom deutschen Passagierschiff Bremen im Hafen von New… Continue Reading →

Bill Bailey – an American Brigadist

|SPANISHSKY.DK 2 FEBRUARY 2019 | Bill Bailey was a longshoreman and sailor, a trade unionist and a member of the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. He is, however, best known by Americans, perhaps even achieving celebrity status, for tearing down the Nazi… Continue Reading →

Bill Bailey – en amerikansk spaniensfrivillig

| SPANISHSKY.DK 2. FEBRUAR 2019 | Bill Bailey var havnearbejder og sømand, fagforeningsorganisator og medlem af Abraham Lincoln Bataljonen. Han er nok bedst kendt af amerikanerne, og har måske endda opnået heltestatus for at rive det hagekorsflag ned, der vejede… Continue Reading →

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