CNT union of Barbers of Barcelona. “At last we are free!”
Category Archives: Everyday life
Sant Felip Neri bombing
Another tragic Barcelona anniversary today. 77 years ago two fascist Italian bombs fell on the Sant Felip Neri church and square and killed dozens of people, mainly orphaned children from Madrid who had sheltered here.
M&Ms and the Spanish Civil War
An odd one. Apparantly the idea for M&Ms were modeled after chocolates that the man behind Mars, Forrest Mars Sr, had discovered while in Spain during the during the Civil War. It seems that Forrest got the idea when he saw soldiers eating a pieces of chocolate covered with a crisp sugar coating—the chocolate pieces did not melt in the hot temperatures at the front…I don’t know on which the side the soldiers were on. More here
The United New School Board
One of the revolutionary changes in Catalonia during the war, was the establishment of the CENU (Consell de l’Escola Nova Unificada) school board on 27 July 1936 which provided free, secular, mixed education for ALL, including to my knowledge the creation of the first free public nurseries in Spain.
We could do with going back to this universal system today, instead of the elitist public/semi-private/private modal which dominates today in Catalonia.