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Hundreds turn out for Jarama anniversary march

On 22 February almost a thousand people gathered in the village of La Boyeriza, a few kilometres outside of Madrid, for the annual Jarama anniversary march organised by the IBMT’s sister-organisation the Asociación de los Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales (AABI).

Len Crome Memorial Conference 2020: An introduction to Scotland and the Spanish Civil War

This year’s annual IBMT Len Crome Memorial Conference will be held at the alma mater of its namesake, the University of Edinburgh on Saturday 21 March. IBMT Scotland Secretary Mike Arnott gives a taster of what to expect at the conference with an outline on the impact of the Spanish Civil War on Scotland.

New Spanish government sets out plan to restore ‘democratic memory’

The IBMT has welcomed the commitment of the Spanish government to renew efforts to recover the country’s ‘democratic memory’ of the Spanish Civil War and subsequent Franco dictatorship.

Jarama commemoration bookings close on 31 January

The annual Battle of Jarama commemoration will be taking place on 21-22 February in and around Madrid. The deadline for booking your place in the contingent is 31 January 2020.

Herminio Martínez 1930-2019

As a tribute to Herminio Martínez, who died on 29 December 2019, we reprint the speech he made at the IBMT’s commemoration on London’s Southbank on 1 July 2017. Eighty ears previously Herminio had arrived in England, aged seven, as one of the nearly 4,000 children who were evacuated from Spain’s Basque Country while it was being bombed by Franco’s German and Italian allies.

Karl Lewkowicz's talk on 'Goodbye Barcelona'

This talk was originally given at the Marx Memorial Library on the 4 October 2019, as part of the IBMT's Annual General Meeting weekend. Composer Karl Lewkowicz spoke about the development, reception and future of the musical 'Goodbye Barcelona', the story of a fictional group of British volunteers who go to fight in the Spanish Civil War.

Minutes of our 2019 Annual General Meeting

Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 5 October 2019 in the Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU

New EC members elected at AGM

Two new members, and one returning member, were elected to the Executive Committee of the IBMT at the Annual General Meeting held on 5 October in London: David McKnight, Jonathon Havard and Mike Arnott.

IBMT raffle winners

The much anticipated draw for the IBMT’s ¡No Pasarán! Raffle took place on Friday 4 October, on the eve of the Annual General Meeting in London.

AGM condemns European Parliament’s ‘insult’ to anti-fascists

The European Parliament’s recent decision to equate communism with Nazism and to ignore British appeasement of fascism as one of the key factors leading to the Second World War has been roundly condemned by the IBMT.

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"These young men were the generous blood of the world. And in spite of their youth, or maybe because of it, they were also its conscience. Here was conscience in action, warning of the terrible danger which had to be confronted… Many would remain for ever under the earth which they had defended. The rest were reluctantly required to leave, as part of an effort to counter the dishonest arguments of those countries which had decided to abandon us. They left with their scars and wounds."

Antonio Buero Vallejo

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Hundreds turn out for Jarama anniversary march

Len Crome Memorial Conference 2020: An introduction to Scotland and the Spanish Civil War

New Spanish government sets out plan to restore ‘democratic memory’

Jarama commemoration bookings close on 31 January

Herminio Martínez 1930-2019

Karl Lewkowicz's talk on 'Goodbye Barcelona'

Minutes of our 2019 Annual General Meeting

New EC members elected at AGM

IBMT raffle winners

AGM condemns European Parliament’s ‘insult’ to anti-fascists

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