On this day, 1 April 1939, the Spanish civil war ended, tragically with victory for general Franco and his Nationalist forces. Workers, largely organised in the anarchist CNT and socialist UGT unions, had launched a social revolution in 1936 and beaten back the right-wing military takeover.
But after nearly 3 years of intense fighting, the anti-fascist forces were eventually overcome by brute force. While the “democratic allies” of the Republic like the UK blockaded Spain, military aid for the Nationalists from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy poured in.
After hundreds of thousands of deaths, many of the remaining anti-fascists had to flee the country to avoid the punitive mass executions which killed tens of thousands.
Spanish refugees were interned in concentration camps in France, which then came under Nazi control during German occupation. But large numbers of civil war veterans joined resistance movements, and help liberate France.
We give an overview of the conflict in this podcast episode: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/spanish-civil-war-podcast/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1389511654567314/?type=3
Ladies, gentlemen, and folks otherwise, I present to you the dishonorable, fascist president doing his best to un-unite the states of America.
I would like to send a shout-out to every asshole who patronizingly told me 3.5 years ago that I was “overacting” and “hysterical” and “pessimistic” and “dramatic” and that I just needed to calm down because “we’ve survived before, and we’ll survive him too” when I said this fucker was going to kill us.
tantrump is a heartless, evil bigot. Thank You, Universe, for so quickly providing tantrump with complete Enlightenment, along with all his minions and enablers, especially rootin’ tootin’ vladimir putin!
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Sustainable Permaculture – Build It in Fall and Enjoy a Weed Free, Self Fertilizing, Till Free Garden
To have a system in place to provide a weed free, self-fertilizing, till free garden sounds good to me. A method of gardening to do that is a sustainable permaculture bed. One way to develop them is in the fall, which is the best time to do this, set up you beds and use lots of mulch. Why Fall? It gives the winter season for that mulch to break down providing their benefits to your garden bed. To learn more about building these sustainable permaculture garden beds head on over to the next pages where you’ll also find a video all about Permaculture and No-till methods including Ramial wood chip method, strawbale gardens, soil/compost bombing, sheet mulching,
