The IBMT's commemoration at the International Brigade memorial in Jubilee Gardens on London's South Bank on Saturday 6 July saw speeches by PCS General Secretary Fran Heathcote and historian Richard Baxell. As is customary and led by IBMT President Marlene Sidaway, wreaths were laid and there was a minute's silence in honour of the more […]
There will be a talk in Belfast on 9 August on Sligo-born nurse Ruth Ormsby and on medical aid from Ireland and elsewhere in the Spanish Civil War. The speaker will be Johnny Gogan and the event will be chaired by Unison Regional Secretary Patricia McKeown. It is being organised by the IBMT-affiliated International Brigade […]
Jim Jump applauds the publication of a new booklet about the rail and maritime workers who first fought fascism. They say the past never goes away and is still with us. That couldn’t be more true of the rise of fascism last century. Everyone hoped this evil creed had been stamped out for good with […]
Here’s an update from the Madrid-based Association of Friends of the International Brigades (AABI) on the campaign to stop Madrid City Council from building a waste recycling facility on top of a mass grave adjacent to Fuencarral cemetery (pictured above). The site is thought to contain the remains of some 451 International Brigaders, including several […]
Historian Daniel Gray draws connections between football and the Spanish Civil War, as personified by the Basque refugee children who became footballers in England. This article was published in issue 59 of ¡No pasarán! in January 2022. In October 1938, La Pasionaria described departing International Brigaders as examples of ‘the universality of democracy.’ The Basque refugee […]
Cover: memorial to the members of the British Battalion who died at the Battle of Jarama in 1937. Issue 2-2024 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has emailed all paid-up members. On the cover is the memorial to the members of the British Battalion who died at the Battle of Jarama in 1937. Behind it […]
A Spanish newspaper is suggesting that the presence of a mass grave in Madrid containing the remains of 451 International Brigaders, including several Britons, has been confirmed. However, the Madrid authorities are being accused of sitting on the report because of its inconvenient findings. The site is next to Fuencarral cemetery, where the Madrid City […]
A major survey of where International Brigaders died in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War has established the names of 522 volunteers, including 86 from Britain and six from Ireland. The findings were published in May by Memòria Democràtica, the Catalan government’s historical memory agency, as part of its Alvah Bessie Programme, named after a […]
There was a full house in Eastbourne’s Grove Theatre on 18 May for an assortment of songs, film clips and spoken word on the theme of ‘Sussex and the Spanish Civil War’. Organised by the IBMT-affiliated Sussex Brigaders Remembered and scripted by former IBMT trustees Mike Anderson and Pauline Fraser, the event attracted an audience […]
The IBMT’s national memorial and sculpture by Ian Walters is in Jubilee Gardens, near Waterloo Station in London SE1, and it needs your help! We were alerted by the Jubilee Gardens staff in December last year to damage to the grouting on the base of the memorial – it’s probably wear and tear but we […]
Delegates at the Scottish TUC conference in Dundee on 15-17 April voted unanimously to support a motion praising the work of the IBMT. The motion also calls on the Scottish government to promote ‘the story of International Brigades in the curriculum of our schools, colleges and universities’. This is the full text of the motion: […]
Lynda Walker of the Belfast-based International Brigade Commemoration Committee (IBCC) reports on events in Derry and Belfast on 25 and 26 April to remember the bombing of Gernika… Joe Solo and Teknopeasant were the stars of two shows that the IBCC organised in Sandinos in Derry and at the Black Box, Belfast. The ‘Peace on […]
