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Letters To Marina Ginesta Coloma is a mini artzine about politics, beer, zine libraries & football - inspired by Subbuteo, 7'' cover art, Pixi Books & Slinkachu.

I visited Ljubljana for #LeToMaGiC issue eight and saw a (very late) NK Olimpija win (the first since they sacked their new manager Mišo Brečko). Though it was even more fun to visit the Zine Vitrin at Dobra Vaga art space and drink tasty Loo-Blah-Nah cask pale ale at Sir Williams Pub. #SubbuteoArt

Olimpija painted Subbuteo figure at a Union beer bottle cap on black stone.The same figure from the back at the stadium in front of ball and players, in the backround some floodlights in front of dark blue sky.Wooden table with box of zines, chairs and zines hanging vertical at the wall. ‚Zine Vitrine‘ in red letters on the top left corner.Bottles, mirrors and the Loo-Blah-Nah handpump at the bar.

Three different views of 17-year old Marina Ginestà on top of Hotel Colon in Plaça Catalunya on 21 July 1936 staged and taken by German born Juan Guzmán, plus overview over all of Guzmán's photos of her, on the roof of Hotel Colón and in Bujalaruz, Aragón with Durruti and soviet journalist Koltsov.

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Born #OnThisDay 29 Jan 1919 Marina Ginestà in Toulouse to politicised working class exiled Catalan parents. Family returned to Barcelona 1928, prewar communist youth and war. 1939 escaped Franco's Spain, exile in LatAm, later France, 1970s won Cat literary award for one of her novels. Died Paris2014

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I believe this is the only known use of Juan Guzman's famed Marina Ginestà photo during the Spanish Civil War itself, an image which has come this century to represent more than any other the revolutionary hopes of 1936. CP magazine Pasionaria, 23 October 1937. Via Gabriela Cladera, FB.

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Group of artists, all men, producing banners for the anarchist women's organisation Mujeres Libres (Free Women). Barcelona, 16 July 1937. Original photo by Pérez de Rozas beautifully colourised by Jules Backmaan (instgm)

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Let's remember Marina Ginestà. Died #OnThisDay 6 Jan 2014 in Paris. Born in Toulouse to politised working class migrant Catalan parents. Family returned to Barcelona 1928, prewar communist youth. 1939 escaped Franco Spain, exile in LatAm, later France, 1970s won Cat literary awards for novels.

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