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Archive of items related to Rosalio Negrete

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Title: Archive of items related to the defense of Rosalio Negrete
Author: [United Front Negrete Defense]
Description: Archive of 16 small broadsides, letters, memoranda, meeting minutes and other documents relating to the efforts of the Revolutionary Workers League and the United Front Committee for Negrete Defense to obtain the release of Rosalio Negrete from a Spanish jail.The RWL supported the POUM during the Spanish Civil War and Oehler and his traveling companion and fellow RWL worker, Russell Blackwell a/k/a Rosalio Negrete, were in Barcelona for the May 1937 uprising. Oehler was arrested and held incommunicado for a month before being allowed to leave the country. Negrete was not as fortunate. Removed from a British ship by the Stalinist secret police as he prepared to leave Spain, he was jailed, tortured and became the focus of protests by the American Left led by the RWL. Ultimately tried for high treason and acquitted, he returned to the United States in 1939.
Heading: (American Radicalism)Place Published: No place
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Date Published: 1930s