Posts Tagged ‘Jim Jump’
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Come and see the blood in the streets
0April 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
Category News | Tags: Anti-fascism, blood on the streets, fundraising documentary, Ian Hart, International Brigade Memorial Trust, Ivor Montagu, Jim Jump, Ken Loach, Land and Freedom, London Socialist Film Co-op, Medical Aid for Spain, Propaganda films, Spanish Civil War films, The Defence of Madrid, Trabadajores, Trabajadores
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Homage to Catalonia: the debate
3March 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
Category News | Tags: Barcelona, Christopher Hall, Franco, Homage to Catalonia, IBMT, ILP, Jim Jump, Len Crome, Mary Vincent, May Days, Orwell, Orwell Society, Paul Preston, POUM, quiet front, Richard Baxell, Spanish Civil War historiography, Stafford Cottman, Tom Buchanan
