Viva La Quinte Brigada - The Dubliners video free download

Gadred Tanioso

Viva La Quinte Brigada and up the IRA! All the proletarians of the world are one, death to fascism and capitalism.

Malic 57

Viva La Quinta Brigada love this song....up the Rebels.

Áine Ražnatović

@Isnows that's quite Black and White not everyone (in fact only a minority) of those who fought on the Republican side were Stalinists there was more Marxists, Trotskyists, Anarchists and Social Democrats. Stalin also contributed to Franco's victory by bringing Stalinist control to the Republicans.

Arthur Gonçalves

Viva la quinta brigada! Viva the Connolly Column! Viva the International Brigades!

sizeren123

@lsnows"franco won. i`m nothis fan, but...", you know, it`s like sayin "i`m not racist but...", nothing good comes after "but"

Colin McDonald

We need them today. Death to Thatcherism, c'est la lutte finale!

Mikel Bueno

In Europe the international brigades are heroes, in Spain no one knows about him or they dont have any kind of recognition. All of this because of the fascist who did the "Transition" and because they want to "close the wounds". So ironic. Sorry for mi english, I´m from basque country

Jamie Sims

Yes, a great book I thought.

Jamie Sims

Yes, a great book I thought.

lsnows

Say, have you ever read George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia?

Jamie Sims

Well, let's just leave it here then. To be honest I agree with much of what you're saying - nations are fundamentally driven by powerful elites that will manipulate public opinion to favour war. Absolutely. Afghanistan and Iraq were imperialist ventures based on lies and oil. Nevertheless I am convinced that fascism was worth opposing. The IB were not in the main Stalin's henchmen, they did not represent the wealthy and powerful, they fought for a cause (as did the fash I suppose...).

lsnows

My dear friend, EVERY war is "justified." The spin doctors in governments always find a legitimate gripe to make people kill and die for their own interests. Nation-states are inherently amoral. It's all about gaining power over others, and that goes for democracies, fascist governments, communist governments or any other system that represents, or claims to represent power. Justification for war is state-sponsored marketing. Remember how justified the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were?

Jamie Sims

Okay, one more question: do you think the Second World War was a just war? Do you consider those who died on D-Day heroes? Would you object to a WW2 memorial? Entirely same principles - the allies fought with Stalin, they committed atrocities in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, Hamburg etc. But the goal was democracy and freedom.

lsnows

I hear ya, but let's face it. The 'democratic' side in the Spanish Civil War did commit mass atrocities too. As atrocities go, the only difference between the Republicans and the Fascists was scale (Fascists were worse, but not by much, I'll grant you that). The Civil War was a war in which there were no heroes, and fighting for either side and bragging about it, particularly for the side that LOST I find a little odd to say the least.

Jamie Sims

I hate Stalin as much as anyone else but internal Soviet policy is hardly relevant to the conflict between the democratically elected Spanish government and a fascist dictator. Guess who else collaborated with the USSR: Churchill and Roosevelt. Nice try with your bogus guilt by association game. As for noble principles being relative, I'll leave you to decide between democracy or fascism. Look up the "Spanish Holocaust" - 200,000 Spaniards executed by Franco, rape, torture, imprisonment...

lsnows

Oh, yeah... the Fascists also fought for "noble principles" too.

lsnows

Hey, I stand by my comments. Franco won. I'm not his fan, but the other side was not much better. They were supported by the Stalinist USSR which at the start of the Spanish Civil War was perpetrating one of the worst politically-motivated famines that the world had seen up to then in the Ukraine. (I'm sure you in Ireland might know a thing or two about that) As for "noble principles"... it's all relative- Confederates of the US South also claim to have fought for "noble principles" as well.

Jamie Sims

True, but the fascists lost in the end and could have been defeated a lot sooner if Mussolini and Hitler's influence had been stopped in Spain. The International Brigades fought for noble principles and gave their lives in a struggle for democracy and liberation - their loss doesn't take away from that so please don't shit on their memory with your flippant comments. TL;DR: fuck off troll.

Paul Roberts

Beautiful song. When will there be a harvest for the poor?

lsnows

No passaran! Famous last words. Franco ended up winning that one- get over it.

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