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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.

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.

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.

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:

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.

Geoffrey Servante: veteran of the International Brigades

A British veteran of the International Brigades is alive and well and living in the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire.

Looking forward to the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Caspe

Message from Amadeo Barceló, President of the Asociación Bajoaragonesa de Agitación y Propaganda (saboresdecaspe@gmail.com) and archaeologist Salvador Melguizo (smelguizo@gmail.com)…

Some dos and don’ts for creating an International Brigade memorial

The Oxford International Brigade Memorial Committee has drawn up an advice paper for other International Brigade groups planning to erect a memorial to their local volunteers who went to Spain.

Polish film project

News comes from Poland of an initiative for a film project to commemorate International Brigaders from Silesia. Jeremi Galdamez, of the Volunteers for Freedom Association, writes…

Today's quote

"The Madrileños heard the sound of steady marching feet; at first they thought that the Fascists had broken through the city’s defence, but then they heard the sound of a song that was becoming more and more familiar to their ears, as the columns marched along Gran Via towards the front. The song they heard was a song of defiance, and international solidarity and comradeship. It was “The Internationale”. The people listened and heard it sung not in Spanish, not just in another language, but in a variety of languages. The first of the International Brigades had arrived."

Michael O’Riordan (Irish volunteer)

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IBMT eNewsletter no. 35

IBMT eNewsletter no. 34

Plans for this year's Battle of Jarama commemoration

Young'uns dedicate their next tour to the International Brigades

New Year greetings from Spain

New membership subscription rates

Geoffrey Servante: veteran of the International Brigades

Looking forward to the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Caspe

Some dos and don’ts for creating an International Brigade memorial

Polish film project

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