Against Quote by Bill Alexander

“During the first part of the 1930s, Spain saw the fall of its monarchy, its first democracy, a major revolutionary insurrection, an attempted military…

— Geoffrey Jensen

“The POUM line was approximately this:Ít is nonsense to talk of opposing Fascism by bourgeois "democracy". Bourgeois "democracy"is only another name of capitalism, and…

— George Orwell

“I can remember when I was a bit of an ETA fan myself. It was in 1973, when a group of Basque militants assassinated…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Yet in the most mean, cowardly, hypocritical way the British ruling class did all they could to hand Spain over to Franco and the…

— George Orwell

[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

[Francisco Franco] said they should resort to guerrilla war. Which has a history in Spain.

— Noam Chomsky

Spain's constitution was introduced to cement democracy after Franco's dictatorship, but this government is exploiting its wording as a means to deny us our…

— Carles Puigdemont

“The seizure of the church and other lands and the closing of Catholic schools were among the developments that deeply disturbed many Spaniards on…

— Geoffrey Jensen

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then…

— Adam Hochschild

[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

There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the…

— Matt Bomer

Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national…

— Oswald Mosley