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Living Out Loud | Nov 7, 2012 | 2:32

The Spanish Crucible - Peter Hunter #2

Peter Hunter - at that time an organiser for the Young Communist League - describes how in Toronto he organised volunteers who came from all over Canada getting them fitted up to go to Spain with cheap clothes, some money and a ticket to New York to get the ship to Europe - trying to make them look like tourists to dodge the RCMP - it was illegal to go to fight in Spain.

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