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Blaenavon

Plaque to miners who volunteered for Spain in the Big Pit coalmining museum. Erected 2006.

Today's quote

"There’s a valley in Spain called Jarama / It’s a place that we all know so well / It was there that we gave of our manhood / And many of our brave comrades fell. / We are proud of the British Battalion / And the stand for Madrid that they made / For they fought like true sons of the people / As part of the Fifteenth Brigade."

From “Jarama Valley / Song of the British Battalion” (anon)

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Patrons:

Professor Peter Crome
Hywel Francis
Professor Helen Graham
Ken Livingstone
Len McCluskey
Christy Moore
Jack O’Connor
Maxine Peake
Baroness Royall of Blaisdon
Mick Whelan

Founding Chair:
Professor Sir Paul Preston

Charity number 1094928

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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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ASLEF, EIS, FBU, NUM, PFA, POA, RMT, TSSA, Unite

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