Marking the 40th anniversary of the unveiling of the International Brigade memorial in London’s Jubilee Gardens, IBMT Chair Jim Jump looks back at the drama behind its installation… Linger by the International Brigade memorial on London’s Southbank and you’ll soon notice tourists stopping to find out what this imposing piece of public art is all […]
Activist and long-standing IBMT member Lisa Croft on her Brigader forebear… My grandfather was Archibald Campbell McCaskill Williams, “AC” for short. He was a lifelong socialist, believing in equality and freedom for the ordinary person, and an International Brigade comrade in Spain, becoming a prisoner during the Battle of Jarama. AC Williams, who was born […]
We need your help to identify a commemoration from the past. If you have any information, please contact us. Do you remember this commemoration at the International Brigade memorial in Jubilee Gardens on London’s Southbank – or can you help pinpoint the exact year it was held? The images are taken from a video shot […]
In preparation for the 2025 IBMT Annual General Meeting in Belfast, we revisit this article by the late Manus O'Riordan in which he describes how the more than 200 Irish International Brigaders overcame hostility and sectarian divisions at home to create a united fight against fascism… The sheer viciousness of the propaganda and hatred faced […]
August talk pulls in the crowds at the Shankill Road Library… On 1 August, a 70-strong audience attended the Féile Lecture 2025, organised by the IBMT-affiliated International Brigade Commemoration Committee (IBCC). The speaker this year was renowned historian Dr Brian Hanley, who spoke on the topic 'Blueshirts, and Blackshirts: fascism in Ireland north and south'. […]
Robbie MacDonald looks back at two events from spring 2025… North West International Brigade Memorial Group (NWIBMG) members have taken part in a number of education events marking anti-fascism before and during the Second World War, timed around this year's 80th anniversary of VE Day, and a concert to raise funds for a new Spanish […]
The IBMT's 2025 Annual General Meeting will be held in Belfast on Saturday 4 October as part of a weekend of commemorative and social activities from 3-5 October. PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME Friday 3 October 5.30pm: Arrive early at Belfast City Hall, Donegal Square North, Belfast BT1 5GS to see the famous stained-glass window dedicated to the […]
Hats off in this hot summer weather to a group of Spaniards who are looking after the memorial garden for the International Brigades at Fuencarral Cemetery in Madrid. Regularly each week they visit the cemetery to keep alive the flowers around a memorial wall dedicated to the international volunteers. Among the plaques is one for […]
Hundreds gathered at the International Brigade memorial on London’s Southbank on 5 July for the annual commemoration of the 2,500 volunteers from Britain and Ireland who took part in the fight in Spain against fascism from 1936-39. Speakers included Gawain Little, General Secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, and Meirian Jump, Director of […]
History school teachers are being told about the IBMT’s new online teaching resources on the International Brigades. The June issue of Teaching History carries a feature on how to teach Year 9 school students about the ‘ordinary people’ who fought in the Spanish Civil War. The article is written by Professor Peter Anderson of Leeds […]
IBMT representatives and supporters have briefed a group of parliamentarians on the work of the Trust and the Spanish Civil War’s legacy in Britain and Spain. It is hoped this will be the first of a series of sessions where MPs and peers can be kept informed of shared matters of interest to them and […]
Robbie MacDonald reports from May's unveiling of a new memorial in East Lancashire… Men from East Lancashire who volunteered to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War have been honoured in a new memorial in Burnley. The Mayor of Burnley, Councillor Shah Hussain, at the unveiling, holding the flag of XV International Brigade. Volunteers from […]
