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Spain: Government bill targets supporters of Franco s dictatorship

Spain: Government bill targets supporters of Franco s dictatorship
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Looking Backward July 18

10 years ago July 18, 2011: The Cape Vincent Local Development Corp. is seeking public input to create a development plan to revitalize the Club Street area near the ferry dock, a key section of downtown and a gateway into the U.S. side of the Thousand Islands. The local development corporation is spending about $40,000 to develop the plan — with a majority of the funding coming from the Department of State’s Environmental Protection Fund — in hopes that it will help the village secure grants for revitalization work in following years. 25 years ago July 18, 1996: When SportsChannel’s “Rush Hour on DIRT” comes to the Can-Am International Speedway in LaFargeville on Thursday, it will mark the first live national broadcast of a sporting event in Northern New York since the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Thursday’s Budweiser at the Border 75-lap modified Skoal race marks the fourth in a series of 10 DIRT Motorsports events that will be aired li

Eighty-five years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War

Eighty-five years since the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Eighty-five years ago, on July 17, 1936, the Spanish army led by General Francisco Franco launched a fascist coup aimed at toppling the elected government of Spain’s Second Republic. Workers and peasants across Spain responded with an armed insurrection, setting up factory committees and forming militias to fight the fascist troops. The Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 had begun. The Spanish Civil War was one of the great battles between the international working class and European fascism in the 20th century. Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy sent tens of thousands of soldiers to join Franco. While the British, French and US ruling classes maintained a policy of non-intervention, blocking military aid to the Republic, there was mass sympathy in the international working class for the workers’ uprising against fascism. Tens of thousands travelled to Spain to fight Franco. The anti-fascist International Brigades numbered

Bob Cooney was among the Scots who fought fascists in Spain

Updated: 17/07/2021, 3:41 pm Archie Dewar, Bob Cooney and Tom Davidson during the Spanish Civil War. Bob Cooney never took a backward step in his life when he thought that fascism had to be tackled head on, whether at home or abroad. The Aberdonian was one of the region’s most significant figures in the build-up to the Second World War and was part of the International Brigade that fought General Francisco Franco’s forces during the Spanish Civil War. That conflict erupted 85 years ago this month, on July 17 1936, and was marked by prolonged battles and grievous loss of life between combatants, who included members from both extremes – and none – of left and right-wing politics.

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