Testimony of Salvador López Arnal, Interview with Luis Martín-Cabrera; July 1, 2010
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Martín Cabrera, Luis Asociación de Ex-presos y Represaliados Políticos Asociación para la Recuperación de la Memoria Histórica Federación Estatal de Foros por la Memoria López, Salvador (López Arnal) University of California, San Diego
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López nació en Peralta de Alcofea, Aragón, hijo de campesinos. Su familia se trasladó á Barcelona poco después de la Guerra Civil Española, instalándose en el barrio de San Martí de Provençals. Describe sus primeras experiencias bajo la dictadura de Franco, incluidas sus luchas para equilibrar el trabajo con los objetivos educativos. López cita la importancia de los movimientos revolucionarios que lo marcaron profundamente: La Revolución de los Claveles en Portugal (1974) y la Revolución Sandinista en Nicaragua. Más adelante en la entrevista, habla sobre su radicalización y activismo político, incluyendo un período de encarcelamiento. También describe su trabajo académico en matemáticas y filosofía, así como influencias e intereses literarios generales que lo llevaron a sus propias publicaciones, como una biografía de Manuel Sacristán Luzón. Finalmente, López hace un resumen del movimiento comunista en España durante la década del 70, contextualizando, por ejemplo, el activismo político de gays y mujeres en España en ese momento. López was born in Peralta de Alcofea, Aragon, son of poor country people. His family moved to Barcelona soon after the Spanish Civil War, settling in the barrio of Sant Martí de Provençals. He describes his early experiences under the Frano dictatorship, including his struggles to balance work with educational goals. López cites the importance of two revolutionary movements that deeply affected him: the Revolución de los Claveles in Portugal (1974), and the Revolución Sandinista in Nicaragua. Later in the interview he discusses his radicalization and political activism, including a period of imprisonment. He also outlines his academic work in mathematics and philosophy as well as general literary influences and interests leading to his own publications, such as a biography of Manuel Sacristán Luzón. Finally, López provides a summary of the Communist movement in Spain during the 1970s, contextualizing, for example, the political activism of gays and women in Spain at that time Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca) Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist dictatorship Lopez's testimony was recorded in Barcelona Interviews in Spanish López, Salvador. Testimony of the Spanish Civil War and the Francoist Dictatorship. University of California, San Diego, 2010 Barcelona, Spain :, Spanish Civil War Memory Project, 2010
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moving image
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6 video files : digital, sound, color
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ark:/20775/bb8465419x
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Spanish
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Nonfiction films Personal narratives-Spanish Interviews Oral history Civil War (Spain : 1936-1939) History Communism Barcelona (Spain) Aragon (Spain) Spain
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