When I see the animals and the dead people in the picture, I remember that night when

I went along a road to Gernika after we left the area shelters. It was full of dead animals

and people covered in sacks, dead. I've always been filled with emotion to see that woman

burning on the balcony with her arms outstretched. I think she could be my grandmother.

Picasso's painting, Gernika. For two survivors, the town's bombing of the Spanish Civil War

has a personal memory, but for nearly 50 years it has echoed in a conscience of the world.

Spain, in the 1930s, was in many ways still struggling out of the 19th century, but it

found itself the arena and battlefield for ideologies of the 20th. Men and women from all over

the world fought for dreams of democracy, or communism, or fascism. Those ideas were

later given a bitter new meaning by the hindsight of global conflict and the Cold War.

Hello everyone and welcome back to Revolutionary Left Radio. I'm your host Ann Comrade,

Fred O'Shea. Today we have John from Working Class History to talk about the Spanish Civil

War. This is an episode that people have really wanted for a long time and I think this is

a particularly relevant historical episode to what we're facing today all over the world

with the rise of fascism and capitalism and crisis, etc. So I'm really excited for this

episode. John, would you like to introduce yourself and maybe introduce Working Class History

for anybody that doesn't know what that is? Hi, yeah. Well, I'm John and I help run the

Working Class History Project, which is basically an online project with the aim of researching

and promoting Working Class radical and people's history. I've been a big fan of Working Class

History for years. Why did you and your comrades start working class history and what was the goal

of it? Thanks very much. Yeah, well, a couple of main reasons. Primarily, we think that solidarity,

working people, fighting together collectively to improve our lot is the most important thing

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