Select panel to rid Madrid of Franco-era glorification
• Broad-based committee to rename 150 streets, plazas honoring Franco era • Names changes to comply with 2007 ‘Historic Memory’ law, stalled…
Historical Memory
Film shines light on forgotten Franco-era victims
• ‘La desmemoria de España’ faults lack of political will to face Franco-era past • Justice for victims of Franquista repression hampered…
Women’s struggle vital to Spain’s ‘Historic Memory’
• ‘Candelas Feministas’ group revindicates women’s role in ‘Historic Memory’ • Feminism key to women’s struggles during Republic, Civil War & dictatorship…
Cities in dispute over Republican flag raising
• Podemos-backed Cadiz mayor defies Madrid government by hoisting flag • Spain’s government also challenges Republican flag raising in Zaragoza • A…
Gov’t ignores judge’s request over Franco-era abuses
• Argentine judge’s request blocked by Justice Ministry, says victims’ group • Judge wants to interview 19 Franco-era officials for crimes against…
Historic Memory activists want full public access to Spain’s Falangist and Franco-era military archives
• Researchers file requests with 30 gov’t agencies and foreign embassies • Prominent Historic Memory activist attorney Eduardo Ranz and journalist José…
New ‘Democratic Memory’ legislation for Aragón announced during homage to French ‘Brigadistas’
• Republican perspective in curriculum, monument to International Brigades • Three French members of XIV International Brigade who died in March 1938…
Madrid mayor names respected former Socialist senator to lead city’s ‘Historic Memory’ commission
• New commission to seek consensus on removal of Franco-era markers • Madrid mayor Manuela Carmena has named the respected attorney and…
Argentine judge wants to question 19 Franco-era officials on rights abuses, crimes against humanity
• Judge Servini brings Franco-era rights investigation to Spain next month • Argentine judge Maria Servini has filed a request with the…
Bottoms up, Comrades! UK micro-brewery to launch International Brigades commemorative beer May 1st
• ‘Brigadista’ beer proceeds to help fund work of IBMT and Hope Not Hate • A micro-brewery in the north of England…
Women’s rights group files suit in Argentina over systematic Franco-era gender violence, rights abuse
• Complaint says ‘liberated’ and Republican women targeted under Franco • An international women’s rights organization based in Spain filed a complaint…
#VIDEO: Last American to have served in ‘Abraham Lincoln Brigade’ during Civil War dies in California
• Delmer Berg [1915-2016], last American veteran of International Brigades • Lifelong Communist and WWII veteran was harassed for many years by…
EU Parliament commission to hear complaint against Spain over Franco-era rights allegations
• Complaint alleges Spain violates treaties by ignoring extradition requests • A European Parliament commission has agreed to hear a complaint that…
#VIDEO: Thirty-five years later, the 23-F attempted military coup that nearly ended Spain’s democracy
• Guardia Civil officers’ 1981 attempt to takeover Congress thwarted • In recent weeks, many political commentators have remarked that the current…
International Brigades monolith defaced in backlash over removal of ‘Franquista’ monuments in Madrid
• Fourth attack in two years targets mayor Carmena and ‘Murderous Reds’ • Vandals in Madrid have attacked a monument to the…
Madrid plan to drop Franquista street names stalls, lawsuit threat against towns with Franco-era names
• Towns with names honoring Franco & Nationalist generals come under fire • The ill-timed release of a short-list of Madrid streets…
#VIDEO: Historic Casa Pinet restaurant in Tàrbena issues ‘call to arms’ at Change.org to avoid closure
• Petitioners ask PSOE’s Ximo Puig to save Alicante mountain town tavern • The colourful Casa Pinet restaurant in the Alicante mountain…
Removal of Franco-era monuments in Madrid sparks controversy and challenge from regional government
• Monuments honor military, civilians & politicians killed by Republicans • A precipitous move by the Culture Secretary of the municipality of…
Madrid to drop Franco-era names of streets and plazas, honoring victims of terrorism, rights abuses
• Conservative PP only party against move to turn page on Franco era • The Madrid municipal council has voted to approve…
Amnesty files lawsuit in Mexico over rights abuses, ‘crimes against humanity’ during Spanish Civil War
• Lawsuit on behalf of family of Spanish railway worker disappeared in 1936 • Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have…
Ian Gibson reflects on García Lorca, eight decades since the poet’s 1936 execution by Franco’s police
• Re-release of Gibson’s full works on Lorca to coincide anniversary of death • The world’s foremost scholar on the poet Federico…
Excavation team begins Spain’s first court-ordered exhumation of Franco-era mass grave in Guadalajara
• Timoteo Mendieta believed buried at a 1939 mass gravesite in Guadalajara • It took an Argentine court order and the cooperation…
Ciudad Real to discuss renaming city street in honor of last Republican general to surrender in Civil War
• Proposal to rename street in honor of Republican general causes controversy • City to begin name changes in keeping with Spain’s…
Film shows German Stuka bomber raids willfully killed Spanish civilians to test planes for WWII use
• Documentary to show German Stukas killed Spanish civilians in ‘practice’ raid • May 1938 Castellón aerial bombing solely to test Stukas…
Amnesty International says Spain has backtracked on freedoms of expression and assembly for citizens
• AI Spain director says political parties should do more to protect rights • Esteban Beltran says police power expanded, protection of…
British historian John Elliott evaluates Spain’s progress on 40th anniversary of Franco’s death
• Oxford Emeritus Professor lauds Spain’s post-Franco democratic Transition • Authority on Cataluña sees various ‘nations’ within Spanish State as viable British…
Protesters call for end to impunity over killings, rights abuses under Franco dictatorship
• Marchers include children, grandchildren of Franco-era victims • Families still seek remains of executed relatives buried in unmarked graves More than…
40 years after Franco’s death, activist wants dictator’s body removed from ‘Valley of the Fallen’
• Activist attorney, former judge Baltasar Garzón wants Franco disinterred • Calls for end to silence over Franco-era disappearances, human rights abuses…
Searchers in Granada said close to finding Civil War-era grave of poet Federico García Lorca
• PSOE-led regional government gave ‘green light’ to renewed effort • Third time since 2009 that teams search for Spanish poet’s unmarked…