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#OtD 15 Apr 2015 Spanish revolutionary folk singer Teresa Rebull died aged 95. Involved in the Spanish revolution of 1936 until she was imprisoned by the Cheka, but managed to escape and later join the French resistance to Nazism https://t.co/P4sDaO2gJa https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8642/teresa-rebull-dies?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

John Wilson WSWS

@workingclasshistory People being drawn into politics won't know what the Cheka (the Soviet secret police) was or how its assassinations of revolutionaries helped betray the Spanish Revolution. (Another service by Stalinism to world imperialism).

Tragically Nin and the POUM ignored Trotsky's advice.

The Spanish Revolution was the last opportunity for the working class to stop fascism and WWII.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2009/01/sple-j26.html

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