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"The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff" - a show

A story of extreme childhood poverty, sleeping rough, hunger marches, mass trespasses, the Battle of Cable Street, fighting fascists in the Spanish civil war, wounded 3 times, fighting Nazism in WWII, decorated...
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"The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff" follows the footsteps of a working class hero who witnessed some of the most momentous events of the 1930s
theyounguns.co.uk/johnnylongstaff
EXPLORE THE INTERACTIVE APP FOLLOWING JOHNNY'S JOURNEY, THROUGH ARCHIVE RECORDINGS AND NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS ...
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John Edward Longstaff: Oral History
British civilian member of Central Wandsworth Branch of Labour Party League of Youth in London, Great Britain, 1935-1937; served with 15th International Brigade in Spain, 11/1937-10/1938
🎙️Imperial War Museum recordings
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How can the talks between the Spanish & the Catalans have broken down "before they even began"?
The Spanish government has rolled over to pressure from all sectors of Spanish nationalism, from the nominal left to the far far right, not to negotiate with Catalan independentists.
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Pablo Casado (PP) and Albert Rivera (Ciudadanos) call to Spanish nationalism will be answered tomorrow in Columbus Square in Madrid by a toxic mix of pseudosocialists, neoliberals, ultraconservatives, fascists, fascist sympathisers, Falangists, Franco nostalgics and neonazis.
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PSOE
Partido Popular
Ciudadanos
v0x
Hogar Social
Falange Española de las Jons
España 2000
Alternativa Española
Democracia Nacional
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#YoVoyAVomitar
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@milfordedge
Spanish nationalists, Falangists, Fascists and Nazis rally against talks with Catalans:

Partido Popular, Ciudadanos, Vox, Hogar Social Madrid, Falange Española de las JONS, Alternativa Española, Democracia Nacional and España 2000 shoulder to shoulder on Sunday in Columbus Sq.
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The Grandees of Sánchez's own party - PSOE leaders past and present - also protest against the talks with the Catalans.

Spanish Republicanism nowhere to be seen.

Wake up, Spain.

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SHOCK!
Manuel Valls, carpetbagging candidate for the mayorship of the Catalan capital, will be in Columbus Square, too.

QUELLE SURPRISE!
Manuel Valls, candidat opportuniste à la mairie de la capitale catalane, sera à la Place Colomb lui aussi, con.

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🕵FELON!🕵

SPAIN's nominal left, right, far-right and far-far-right announce demo for Sunday in Madrid's COLUMBUS Square (world's largest Spanish flag) in opposition to PSOE PM Sánchez's "HIGH TREASON"!!!

What has he done? 😰

👇[💣treasonous thread💥]👇
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Has he induced a foreign power to declare war on Spain?
Has he invited Brexit Britain to send the Royal Navy to protect The Rock?
Has he armed the Catalans?
Has he assisted an invader?
Has he starved the Spanish
armed forces?
Is he a Russian spy?

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NO.

He has announced bilateral talks between Spanish and Catalan parties which include a "relator" - a word nobody understands - rapporteur, moderator, arbiter?

And now it's all kicked off, again, in typically hysterical Spanish nationalist style.

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