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Alex Wallace

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where the bloodthirstiness of the Nationalist forces under Franco was because they were literally the enforcers of Spanish rule in Morocco and brought the nasty tactics, including many Arab Moroccan mercenaries, and the conception of the enemy as subhuman, back to Spain

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I recently read a book on African-American antifascists that argued that that tradition really began with the anti-lynching movement in the early 20th century before linking up with European antifascist movements - a number of Black writers of the period...

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