Olympic Games in Barcelona by Eduardo Vivancos Article about the Popular Olympic Games of Barcelona 1936, written by a would be participant.
Written in the Catalan language in 1992 and published in the same year in the magazine Flame, the official publication of the Catalunya Association of Toronto. The most important thing about the Olympic Games is not to win, but to participate
Pierre de Coubertin
Thanks to the 25th Olympic Games Barcelona became the focus of millions of people from around the world. It seemed as if Barcelona had been rediscovered. Everyone was talking about it. The newspapers and television showed pictures that seemed to come from the land of marvels. Pictures of the whole city, of its characteristic monuments, its Gothic cathedral, the Olympic village, the newly completed Palace of Saint Jordi, of the many sports grounds and racing tracks and the Olympic stadium of Montjuic. Oh, the stadium of Montjuic! For people of my generation that building is ful
Esperanto & Anarchism - Xavi Alcalde Examination of the links between Esperanto and the Libertarian movement, and a brief biographical sketch of one of the leading Esperanto speaking Anarchists Eduardo Vivancos.
Esperanto & Anarchism
“Paroli Esperanton estis iam esenca parto de anarkiismo.”
(There was a time when speaking Esperanto was an essential part of being an anarchist.)
When 97-year-old, Barcelona-born Eduardo Vivancos walks down the streets of Toronto where he has lived as an exile since 1954, he never comes across another Esperanto speaker.
However, when he first learned the language in June 1937, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War and Revolution, he thought that it was a natural element of the libertarian world.
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