Posts Tagged ‘Jim Jump’

  1. Come and see the blood in the streets

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    April 22, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    What prompted thousands of men and women, some only teenagers (like Nat and Felix in A World Between Us), to leave everything they knew to go and help the Republican cause in Spain – often without a word to their families?  Many had never left Britain before, most didn’t speak a word of Spanish, and a fifth of them were killed there.

    In Ken Loach’s Land and Freedom, a documentary film at a political meeting is the deciding factor keep reading


  2. Homage to Catalonia: the debate

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    March 4, 2013 by Lydia Syson

    “You’ve written a book about the Spanish Civil War?  Oh yes, Orwell, right?”

    “Mmm. Yes and no.”

    I’ve had a few conversations along these lines in recent months.  It’s hard to explain George Orwell’s complicated relationship to the complicated Civil War in Spain and its complicated historiography in just a few words.  As a teenager, I absolutely loved Homage to Catalonia keep reading



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