Acorazado (Battleship) España sinking on 30 April 1937 after striking a mine laid by her own side off the coast of Santander in northern Spain during thew Spanish Civil War.
On this day, 19 August 1936, the gay socialist poet Federico García Lorca was taken from his jail cell and executed on the order of General Franco’s military authorities. The Spanish civil war had broken out one month previously, and it was clear on what side his sympathies lay: “I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.” To date, his remains have still not been found.
In this podcast we tell the story of the civil war: https://workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/spanish-civil-war-podcast/https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1191165574401924/?type=3
