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IBMT expands rights for affiliated local groups

To encourage the formation and affiliation of more local International Brigade memorial groups, IBMT Trustees have agreed to strengthen links between these groups and the IBMT.

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Jarama March

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).

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Scottish Brigaders

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.

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PSOE and Unidos Podemos

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.

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Jarama march

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.

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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.

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Goodbye Barcelona

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. 

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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

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New EC members

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.

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IBMT raffle

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.

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