The Good Fight - The Abraham Lincoln Brigades: A Lesson From History

Abraham Lincoln is my hero

In the words of Bill Baily, I believe, "...they had a moment in history when they could have done something about it and they missed the ball..."

The irony is, that the same power brokers who ran the show back then are still running the show today...many corporations and wealthy elite were so far invested in the war machine of the nazis and the facists that it behoved them to allow the war to rage in the honor of the despots...the more the resistance fought, the more munitions and supplies were needed to defeat them and the more money to be made by the thriving surreptitious war machine...the loss of the lower class lives seems to be the last thing on the minds of the greedy elite. Where diplomacy and creative compromising and bargaining could go a long way toward solving the problems of global society, instead the bully 'kick their ass' tactics are still employed...

When will the collective mind of mankind come to realize that we can control our own destiny in this present moment by being conciously aware of what is going on around us and taking action to improve our condition...

Consider whether a big part of the problem is, that most people selectively hear what they want to hear and believe the lies that are professed to be truth from those who they believe are looking after their best interests, but instead are herding them into the sea of blind consumption, where so many are drowning in their own passivism...whether conservative or so called 'liberal'... what many people don't realize is, that the progressive movement has it roots in both republican and democrat circles, searching for the middle of the road, perhaps.

Thanks, jubal, for sharing this post; what a tremendously powerful documentary. Those individuals, who went to fight for the Spanish people are truly great heroes...

Communism is a bad word to capitalists because it is the antithesis of what they represent.

This film represents a time when Americans generally really did care about freedom and democracy, when we didn't automatically associate democracy with communism.

I like to think that we here on current fight the good fight everyday.

I am watching the whole documentary. It is very moving! Thanks Jubal!

Ashes of Spanish Civil War Vet Brought to Spain

And family and friends of the late Clarence Kailin have brought his ashes to Spain, where he fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s. Kailin died last year at the age of 95 in Madison, Wisconsin. He was one of the last survivors of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, a group of American volunteers who fought in defense of Spain’s democratically elected government against a military coup led by Gen. Francisco Franco, backed by Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. (From the DN archives: 'Fighting Fascism: The Americans–Women and Men–Who Fought In the Spanish Civil War')
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/11/8/headlines

Thanks for removing the spam. It was all I saw on my feed.

Lincoln is my favorite Republican.

Fantastic lesson from history inspiring , thanks jubal .

On all sides of political debates, attractive liars have historically whipped up emotion in the young in order to induce them to commit suicide in war. Lately the struggle between common workers and corporate fascists has been intensified because right wringers smell victory over labor unions, social justice, and hope. However, it would be a mistake to urge anyone to sacrifice himself in the cause against oligarchy, because true victory will not come on a battlefield. Victory against those who worship materialism will come when common people refuse to join the ranks of avid consumers who suck at the teat of mass production. Sooner or later, when the common people have been bankrupted, the corporate fascist state will collapse as the economic system that supports it fails.

Thank you Jubal. I would have been enlisted. I am raising my child and waiting for a right action movement to take hold. Justice must be served to raise consciousness.

..."Once again we witness how the church is the whore of the government as it meddles in civil life and attempts to dictate morality on its terms and not on the evolved conscience of the human spirit"...

...says it all for me...great post Jubal...