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 have always been filled with emotion to see that

women burning on the balcony where their arms are stretched. I think she could be my grandmother.

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

is a personal memory, but for nearly 50 years it has echoed in the 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 of the Cold War.

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

Bredo-Shea and 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 and why did you and your Comrade start

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