Extraordinary Communities: announcements and photographs of rallies and demonstrations, photographs and obituaries of demonstrators.
Through their activism and print culture, US Hispanic workers’ associations and mutual aid societies affiliated with the Sociedades Hispanas Confederadas (SHC) were one of the antifascist hubs during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Francisco Franco dictatorship (1939-1975). Like other ethnic worker antifascist movements in the United States, SHC developed transnational proletarian cultures and networks. These practices include customary mutual aid that also meant sharing: (1) headquarters with other grassroots organizations, (2) subscribers to their periodicals and membership, and (3) volunteering performers for their fundraisers. SHC fundraisers were advertised and reviewed in US Hispanic periodicals, which consolidated Hispanic antifascism and culture. This proletarian antifascism developed from local, earlier migrant, and exile workers from Europe and Latin America, who brought a deep-seated working-class identity and radical ideologies that linked them beyond national boundaries.
Bibliography
Feu, Fighting Fascist Spain. Worker Protest from the Printing Press. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2020.
Jon Bekken. "Crossing Borders: Reader-Editors and Publishing Communities." https://www.academia.edu/36716251/Crossing_Borders
American Periodicals. 30.2 (2020). Dedicated to collaborative editorship.