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Concierto Con Tambor Y Metralla, Side Two

Milt Wolff grew up with my maternal grandfather, George. They belonged to the Young Communist League in Brooklyn and Queens, alongside children of many other neighborhood immigrant families. At the age of 22, in 1937, Milt travelled by ship to Spain where he volunteered in the struggle against the…

Hello From La Tomatina

Send over your dead SMS messages. Hey there, listeners! Hermes here. My uncle is ... well, for lack of a better word, analog. He's still trying to figure out how to use "emotion tags", because grave and somber Lord of the Dead makes the machine scream. While we wait on him, (yes, the script was wri…

Is Trump Cult Fascist?

Is the Trump Administration a Fascist Regime? Let’s go through the four pillars of fascism and decide together. People keep comparing the Trump administration to early Nazi Germany. Scholars who have spent their careers studying fascism are leaving the United States. And every time someone raises …

The Spanish Civil War

Why did Spain spiral into civil war in 1936? Today, we delve into the grinding class conflicts and ferocious political divisions that split Spain in two, from the dictatorship of the 1920s to the ambitious and divisive government of the early 1930s. We explore why democracy unravelled in Spain, and…

General Franco

From 1939 to 1975, Generalissimo Francisco Franco ruled Spain as a nationalist dictator. For many, he was Spain incarnate, a tenacious leader and warrior in the same vein as El Cid. Under his guidance, the regime was able to navigate 36 years of political turmoil and conflict, vanquishing Communism…

S15 EP168: Hour 3 - The Racists Trying to Take Over Both Parties

Erick Erickson closes Open Line Friday with the fight that earned him death threats this week. He plays Hassan Piker telling Axios the Middle East would be more stable with an Iranian nuclear weapon, watches Jake Tapper and Abby Phillip try to make Tucker Carlson the right wing mirror image of a ma…

Far-right frenzy as conservative's damning exposé ties Nazi-aligned network to White House

U.S. Vice President JD Vance reacts as he holds a press briefing, the first since Karoline Leavitt stepped down as press secretary, at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 3, 2026. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst The Authoritarian Right Isn’t Infiltrating Power. It Is Being Invited In. A Wa…

Great Books — George Orwell: Animal Farm (English)

In the summer of 1944 a writer dug a typescript of about 30,000 words out of the rubble of his bombed flat in north-west London and sent it to a publisher. It came back. It had been refused before, and it would be refused again. No law stood in the way, and no censor had read it. It was a fable abo…

The Dark History of El Clásico | Joey D'Urso, Tim Vickery & Dotun Adebayo

Why is El Clásico so popular? Real Madrid vs Barcelona is one of football's greatest rivalries. But how much of El Clásico's history do we really understand? Ahead of Barcelona vs Real Madrid on Sunday, 25 October, Dotun Adebayo and Tim Vickery are joined by football journalist and author Joey D'Ur…