As Spain prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator Francisco Franco's death and the return of democracy, fascism is returning around the world. It's proof, as philosopher Walter Benjamin said, ...

A s historic turning-points go, it was squalid. On November 20th 1975 Francisco Franco, who had ruled Spain for almost 40 years, was declared dead, his body already rotting. That eventually ushered in ...

Socialist Pedro Sanchez's government opened the commemorations of the dictator's death on Wednesday, in the absence of the ...

Franco’s greatest contribution to contemporary art came in a perverse manner. In 1936, he led troops against Spain’s democratically elected government igniting the Spanish Civil War which ...

Remembering Franco's death was "positive" because today's Spain "does not keep in mind the importance of recovering a democratic system in 1977 and being able to consolidate it", he said.

Imagine a packed stadium, the roar of the crowd swelling as the national anthem plays. But instead of voices raised in song, ...

Learn how Francisco Franco used the tactics of colonial war to win control of Spain. Driven by a deeply conservative vision, he used torture, murder and incarceration to transform Spanish Society.

Only the far-right Vox party in Melilla had voted against its removal. General Franco ruled Spain from 1939 until his death in 1975. More than 350,000 people died in the 1936-39 Spanish Civil War ...