[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla…

[Camillo] Berneri proposed that the anarchists should link up with the effort of Northern Africa to overthrow the Spanish government, carry out land reform,…

— Noam Chomsky

Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require…

— Charles Krauthammer

I had relatives in New York City who I stayed with. And in those days, the area from Union Square down Fourth Avenue had…

— Noam Chomsky

You can read it in history books now, but they often suppress the fact that the U.S. government tolerated [Nazi]. It's really remarkable because…

— Noam Chomsky

There's an interesting question, whether the anarchists had alternatives [in Spain]. If they did tend to support the government that had been destroyed, what…

— Noam Chomsky

I also learned from reading the left-wing press about the [Franklin] Roosevelt administration's indirect support for Francisco Franco, which was not well known, and…

— Noam Chomsky

[Francisco] Franco's army was mainly Moorish. They were recruiting people from Morocco to come to Spain. There was an uprising in Morocco at the…

— Noam Chomsky

It was reported in the left-wing press in the late 1930s that the Texas Company (Texaco), headed by the Nazi sympathizer Torkild Rieber, diverted…

— Noam Chomsky

William R. Polk discusses the Spanish guerrilla war against Napoleon [ Bonaparte] and other cases where the conflict turns into a political war, and…

— Noam Chomsky

“Guerrilla war is the war of the broad masses of an economically backward country standing up against a powerfully equipped and well trained army.…

— J.C. Wylie

Guerrilla war is a kind of war waged by the few but dependent on the support of many.

— B. H. Liddell Hart

Was Castro sincere when, during his guerrilla war, he swore that he was not a Communist? If so, when did he change, and why?…

— Stephen Kinzer

I will not call myself a pacifist for the very simple reason that if something like a [Francisco] Franco should arise in Spain again,…

— Murray Bookchin

For example, it's often forgotten that [Albert ] Camus was extremely hostile [farouche] towards the [Francisco] Franco regime, and right to the end. He…

— Catherine Camus

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world…

— Adam Hochschild