“…Under the modern-day backdrop of a vanguard Cuban counterculture movement, "Alamar Express" exemplifies the hopes of a struggling nation through the independent voices of some of Cuba's most unique and talented artists.…”

“…From the US to Europe, students have been in the vanguard of protest against their governments’ harsh austerity measures. …”

“…We appeal to you, who are the vanguard of the world proletariat and bear its glorious banners, to take common and determined action, in view of the fact that the Fascist governments are attacking with uprecedented fury our civil population and endangering the lives of the old, the women and children, and thus to stimulate the solidarity of the workers of all countries which are determined to frustrate the Fascists' plans and prevent the catastrophe of a world war. …”

“…1943-10-20 1943 1940s 15 pages -12- In any good National Medical Service the General Medical Practitioners, in the vanguard of medical practice, seeing patients at their homes or in their surgeries meeting disease in its earliest stages and in its most chronic or terminal phases, should be afforded every facility not only for treatment to patients but for diagnosis and investigation, for specialist consultant opinion and for following up his case or cases to the end, in hospital or convalescence or return to work. …”

“…Against the torturers of Spain are all the intellectuaIs and the workers of Spain. And at the vanguard of this Spain hungry for freedom and juctice, are the directing vital organs of opinion, the republicans, the Socialists, the U.G.T. …”