Opinion

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Celebrating Spanish Civil War veteran and lifelong activist Delmer Berg

The life of the last surviving member of the Lincoln Brigade was celebrated May 21 by friends and family.

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Delmer Berg, last of the Lincoln Brigade vets, dies at 100

The Lincoln Brigade was 2,800 men and women, African-American, Latino and white, who volunteered to defend Spain's elected government from Franco and his fascists.

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The legacy of Spain and the Lincoln Brigade

When I think about Spain, I think about the people who taught me to fight for a different world, for a vision of a just society, a socialist society.