Two Poems
THE GREAT LEGACY For Nate Thornton on his 95th Birthday, January 14, 2010 Tomorrow evening I’ll join with many others for a meeting of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade. The Brigade exists because you...
View ArticlePoems in Memory of Louis Ladman – by Ida Gill
Louis Ladman, clipping likely from the Daily Worker, VALB/ALBA. Editor’s note: At the initiative of ALBA board member Chris Brooks, who maintains the online biographical database of US volunteers in...
View ArticleALBA Chair Emeritus Peter Carroll Shares Poem on the Passing of the Lincolns
Peter Carroll ALBA Chair Emeritus and prolific author Peter Carroll reckons with the passing of the Lincolns and their enduring legacy in his touching poem “And Counting” which he shared on Portside...
View ArticleTwo Poems by Miles Tomlin
Two Poems by Miles Tomalin The Volunteer for Liberty, V2, No. 35, November 7, 1938 Miles Tomlin playing the recorder, XV BDE Anti-Tank Battery TO ENGLAND From the English Dead We, who were English once...
View ArticleThree Poems of Spain by Bill Harrington
The Volunteer for Liberty, V2, no. 33, October 6, 1938 ARAGON BALLAD Francisco Franco, fascist chief, Of him is the story told, His “justice” fills the Aragon hills, His curse is manifold: He’s taken...
View ArticleMORA LA NUEVA – MAY-1938 by Barney Baley
Manch O. Phetteplace from Group of Californians in Lincoln-Washington Battalion, Agua-viva, February 1938; Harry Randall: Fifteenth International Brigade Films and Photographs; ALBA PHOTO 011-1021...
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