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Lorca
Churchill's Communist Nephew and the Fight Against Fascism
How Esmond Romilly went from being a posh Wellington schoolboy to a fierce anti-fascist... The British aristocracy has produced a number of over the years, but few so deeply committed to the cause as Esmond Romilly.
Fighting for Something Worthwhile: The Life and Death of Ralph Fox
The British Communist and scholar who died fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War"I am not just paying a conventional tribute to a dead man when I say that he was a real hero." On this day in 1936, Ralph Winston Fox was killed.
I do not worry to die: The Life and Death of Federico García Lorca
Killed on this day in 1936, Lorca remains one of the most important radical writers in history “As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.” These were the prophetic words of Federico García Lorca, the Spanish poet and playwright who was assassinated on this day in 1936 by far-right thugs near Granada.