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Go-ahead for closer ties with local groups

IBMT Trustees have agreed new guidelines to support the growing number of local and regional International Brigade commemorative groups. 

 

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Old newsletters go online

Newsletters of the International Brigade Association are now available on the Marx Memorial Library (MML) website. The IBA was the veterans’ organisation for those volunteers from the British Isles who had fought in Spain. It published a newsletter for members between 1947 and 2000 when the IBA disbanded, to be replaced by the IBMT in the following year.

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Archiving the International Brigades

Rose Brown (pictured below) reports on the progress of a major project to catalogue the archives of the International Brigades and Spanish Civil War at the Marx Memorial Library in London.

 

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IBMT eNewsletter no. 34

Here’s our 3 January 2018 eNewsletter to IBMT members. Download this PDF –  eNL34.pdf – to see the version with images.

 

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Plans for this year's Battle of Jarama commemoration

IBMT Trustee Pauline Fraser reports on plans by our Spanish sister organisation in Spain, the AABI, for this year’s Battle of Jarama commemoration in and around Madrid on 16-18 February. Pauline is organising the IBMT contingent who will be attending.

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Young'uns dedicate their next tour to the International Brigades

Britain’s foremost folk trio, The Young’uns, are dedicating their spring 2018 tour to a suite of songs inspired by the International Brigades, in particular by Johnny Longstaff, a fellow Teessider who as an 18-year-old travelled from Stockton-on-Tees to fight fascism in Spain. 

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New Year greetings from Spain

This 2018 greetings card produced by AABI, the Madrid-based International Brigades friendship group, reproduces a solemn declaration made by International Brigaders in Albacete in 1936:

 

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New membership subscription rates

As announced in News & Blog posting on 3 November, IBMT membership subscription rates will be going up by £5 a year from 1 January 2018.

 

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