In the absence of proper teaching, people are adopting distorted, nostalgic far right narratives.
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Women were often jailed for their association with anti-Franco male relatives. Behind bars, they suffered mental and physical torture.
Banning abortion instantly oppresses a huge swath of society. And enforcing abortion bans begets a police state − an upside for dictators from Mussolini to Ortega.
Spain has long avoided addressing the fact that tens of thousands of Spaniards were victims of Nazis, who collaborated with Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco.
According to some reports, thousands of people from around the world are signing up to fight on behalf of Ukraine. But comparisons to the Spanish Civil War’s International Brigades are misguided.
Spain has made it a punishable offence to praise the regime of General Franco.
The decision to move the Stasi files into the German national archive has sparked debate of how memories of life before reunification should be handled.
Spanish dictator Francisco Franco no longer has a place in the Valley of the Fallen.
The intertwining of the market, state and society has continued to see itself expressed through music in the DRC.
New prime minister Pedro Sánchez wants to move the remains from a national memorial site. But not everyone agrees.
As many as 300,000 babies were taken from their families for political gain.
Contemporary terrorism is rooted in a form of political violence dating from the French Revolution. It is rooted in social facts and is now evolving on a global scale.
Devoting all energies to fight over an imaginary border deflects attention from the real issues.
While politicians remain at loggerheads, the arts bring resolution to the Basque Country’s long history of violence.
How Hitler’s Germany, fascist Italy and other authoritarian states tried to win friends and influence people.
A long time before their recent landmark concert in Cuba, The Rolling Stones played Spain: less than a year after the death of General Franco.
A group of performers is using music and dance to highlight inequality, austerity and racism in Spain.
The language survived against the odds and is now a central part of Catalan identity.
Spain’s fascist past has complicated the state’s relationship with anti-vaccination groups, now a rare disease has appeared again after 28 years.
The Spanish monarchy has been thrown into crisis after the king, Juan Carlos I, announced his decision to abdicate the throne after 39 years in favour of his son Felipe. The news was conveyed via the royal…
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