Moe Fishman at VFP convention 2006

[armidas200]

great man.may he rest in peace.

[Cyallaire]

Sorry for the double posting. The format here initially gives the impression it hasn't posted, and you have to reload the page to see that it has posted. I found your David Rovic song on the Abraham Lincoln Brigade first, and your link there lead to this. I've seen David Rovic a few years ago, and have a CD of his (with the St. Patrick's Brigade on it, but not the song you recorded.)

[Cyallaire]

In 1984 I attended an anti-nuclear testing protest in the Nevada desert. People left on busses from Circus Circus to the test site, and on the bus, I was seated next to a couple with woman wearing "Grandmothers for Peace" on her t-shirt and her husband with a "Grandmothers for Peace Auxilairy Unit" and in talking with them, I learned he was from the Lincoln Brigade.

[ToddBoyle]

Look for David Rovic's song to the last of the Abraham Lincoln brigade,

vimeo dot com number 17551196 TOO BAD the Google Corporation and Youtube does not allow us to share our common cultural heritage easily.

[Gawever]

There are strong ties between the Veterans for Peace and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. At the coming VfP convention in August 2010 in Portland Maine, a film about the Lincolns will be shown ("The Good Fight"). We will miss Abe and Moe and so many others in whose memory we formed the Friends & Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to carry on their political and social activism.

[Gawever]

There are strong ties between the Veterans for Peace and the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. At the coming VfP convention in August 2010 in Portland Maine, a film about the Lincolns will be shown ("The Good Fight"). We will miss Abe and Moe and so many others in whose memory we formed the Friends & Family of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to carry on their political and social activism.

[joshieboy15]

His name is Moe Fishman. FISHMAN!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

[daddycrockett23]

Irony-Stalin used the Intl. Brigades to overthrow the proletariat revolution in Spain and supress the socialists,anarchist and "renegade"Marxist militias who'd established a workers state.See Orwell's Homage to Catalonia.What a tragedy!

[ToddBoyle]

You say "Stalin used". The word "used" implies a substantial degree of control. What was the mechanism of this supposed control? Sounds far fetched, to me. The proposition that Stalin wanted to sabotage the workers' state is also new. Isn't there a brief, accurate history somewhere?

[daddycrockett23]

Orwell's book is the best source.I admire and respect the Americans who fought with the Intl Brigades against fascism but Stalin's crimes against the rival leftist groups,such as the anarchists,shouldn't be forgotten.The POUM is still referred to as Trotskyist,which is untrue.

[nickglais]

Orwell was nothing but a cheap police spy - worked for British Intelligence providing lists of Communists - yes and its well documented.

[raist2]

solidarity.

[Sefardisafran]

IN SOLIDARITY

LUISM

[QuiqueTopp]

...

Where we fought like true sons of the people

as a part of the Fifteen Brigade

Now we´re background this valley of sorrows

and its Madrid we´ll never forget

so before we continue this reunion

let us stand to our glorius dead"

Woody Guthrie - Cisco Houston

[QuiqueTopp]

Alive example of disinterested solidarity

thanks

"There´s a valley in Spain called Jarama

it´s a place that we all know so well

It was there that we gave of our manhood

and there that our brave comrades fell

We are proud of the Lincoln Battalion

and the fight for Madrid that we made...

[goby999]

Thank you. Moe just passed away. What a loss...