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  • 1.6 Anarchism in/and the Spanish Civil War

    Kaarina chats with Hugh Goldring of Ad Astra Comix about Anarchism leading up to the Spanish Civil War, during the war, and in Canada and North America today. Hugh also shares his thoughts on anti-fascism today.

    43 min
  • 1.7 Tomo Cacic: A Difficult Prisoner

    Kevin Levangie tells us about a Canadian volunteer named Tomo Čačić, and his complicated journey to the Spanish Civil War and beyond. We talk about deportation, forced mobility, anti-communism, and nation-building.

     

    42 min
  • 2.4 A Real Live Military Historian

    In Part 2 of our interview with Tyler Wentzell, we talk about a whole lot of things: his research on Toronto's Standard Theatre, the Foreign Enlistment Act, canada and the Spanish Civil War from the persepctive of a military historian, and anti-fascism. 

    43 min
  • 2.1 It Ain't Ethiopia

    Canada and the Spanish Civil War co-director Emily Robins Sharpe talks about Jewish North American and African American participation in the Spanish Civil War, and the war's impact on Jewish North American and African American literature
     

    34 min
  • 1.9 A Day in the Life of a Mac Pap

    Kevin Levangie traces the typical (if such a generalization is possible) journey and experience of a Canadian volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. He discusses the Canadian's resistance to discipline, how scarcity of resources affected volunteers, and the battles they engaged in.

    24 min
  • 2.6 Military Experience of the Canadian Volunteers
    Though the International Brigades provided very little military training, many volunteers brought their own experience. Kevin Levangie digs into the military backgrounds of Canadian volunteers, telling which wars they fought on, which sides they ended up on, and how their politics came up against their militarism.
    33 min
  • 2.8 Meet Me on the Barricades

    Kevin and Kaarina discuss Meet Me on the Barricades, a 1938 novel by Charles Yale Harrison about a big-dreaming oboe player with a passionate but passive interest in the Spanish Civil War. 

    In a bonus track, Kevin and Kaarina read an excerpt from Meet Me on the Barricades. 

    38 min
  • 1.2 The Mac Paps

    Kevin Levangie joins Kaarina Mikalson to discuss the Canadians who fought in the Spanish Civil War and the organizations they fought with: the International Brigades and the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion.

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    59 min
  • 2.2 The Technology of Camps
    Kaarina and Kevin talk about the kinds of camps that Canadian Spanish Civil War volunteers might have moved through: Canada's relief camps, International Brigades' disciplinary camps, Fascist Prisoner of War camps, and French refugee camps, and German concentration camps.
    1 hr 1 min

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A podcast about the people, movements and events that made the Spanish Civil War a part of Canada's cultural and political history.