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The second effort of the 11th International Brigade

Nancy Phillips, US-based IBMT member and contributor to the Friends & Families of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade group, provides the following account of the ‘second effort’ of the 11th International Brigade.

Hywel Francis (1946-2021)

Hywel Francis, IBMT Patron, historian and former Labour MP for Aberavon, died on Sunday 14 February, aged 74.

Reassessing the military strength of the Brigades

Alexander Clifford’s most recent book on the International Brigades, ‘Fighting for Spain’, was published late last year by Pen & Sword. It follows his last book, a study of the People’s Army of Republican Spain, which received a positive review in the May 2020 issue of ¡No Pasarán!.

Commemoration at the 'living memorial' to the Australian volunteers

Jim Minter, member of the IBMT and the Australian Friends of the International Brigades (AFIB), has sent in the following report of the AFIB’s commemoration event held late last year. Seventy Australian International Brigaders and medical volunteers travelled to Spain to fight fascism.

How families and friends established the foundations of the IBMT

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the formation of the IBMT, when the International Brigade Association merged with the Friends of the International Brigades. Drawing from papers and personal recollection, IBMT Trustee Pauline Fraser has written a first-hand history of FIBS.

A superb International Brigades history, sadly gift wrapped in anti-communism

IBMT Ireland Secretary Manus O’Riordan reviews ‘The International Brigades: Fascism, Freedom and the Spanish Civil War’ by Giles Tremlett (October 2020). He takes issue with the portrayal of International Brigaders Frank Ryan and Jack Jones in the book's final chapter.

Len Crome Memorial Conference 2021: Was the Spanish Republic worth dying for?

Tickets for the IBMT's annual Len Crome Memorial Conference are now available: Was the Spanish Republic worth dying for? Paul Preston in conversation with Helen Graham.

Notice of Annual General Meeting

The Executive Committee has agreed that the IBMT’s postponed 2020 Annual General Meeting will be held online at 11am on Saturday 20 March 2021.

Despite the pandemic we continue to fulfill our mission

A new year message from IBMT President Marlene Sidaway...

A reply to Ken Loach on Land and Freedom

IBMT member Tom Sibley has sent in this response to Ken Loach’s exclusive article in ¡No Pasarán! 3-2020, which was a retrospective on his award-winning Spanish Civil War film 25 years on.

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"The men who fought and those who died for the [Spanish] Republic, whatever their nationality and whether they were communists, anarchists, socialists, poets, plumbers, middle class professional men, or the one Abyssinian prince, were brave and disinterested, as there were no rewards in Spain. They were fighting for us all, against the combined force of European fascism. They deserved our thanks and our respect and got neither."

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The second effort of the 11th International Brigade

Hywel Francis (1946-2021)

Reassessing the military strength of the Brigades

Commemoration at the 'living memorial' to the Australian volunteers

How families and friends established the foundations of the IBMT

A superb International Brigades history, sadly gift wrapped in anti-communism

Len Crome Memorial Conference 2021: Was the Spanish Republic worth dying for?

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Despite the pandemic we continue to fulfill our mission

A reply to Ken Loach on Land and Freedom

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