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This official ORIGINALnewspaper VOLUNTEER FOR LIBERTY for the International Brigades fighting in Spain during the 1937-1938 period (Abraham Lincoln Brigade) are almost impossible to find in market and this one is in really good condition for the age, something really not usual.
This very rare issue of this weekly Front Newspaper printed for the English-speaking Republican fighters of the International Brigades.
Very SCARCE SURVIVALS OF THIS IMPORTANT SPANISH CIVIL WAR PERIODICAL. The International Brigades was a collective term for the groups of foreign fighters who joined the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War. Numbering approximately 60,000 members over the course of the war, with aroundONLY 2,500from Britain, Ireland and USA(Abraham Lincoln Brigade), the brigades saw action at the siege of Madrid and the battles of Jarama and Guadalajara, with as many as 25,000 losing their lives.
The volunteer for libertywas founded in 1937 and its weekly issues aimed to encourage and unite the English speaking battalions and to condemn Franco and the Nationalists, as well as the wider growth of fascism in Europe under Hitler and Mussolini. Edited by Englishman Ralph Bates, a communist writer and a significant commentator on the war effort, the newspaper ran stories on the heroics of the Brigadist fighters, criticism of nationalist failings, and articles reassuring readers of the popular worldwide support for the Republican cause