This year’s Len Crome Memorial Conversation features a discussion between three leading historians of the Spanish Civil War: Paul Preston, Helen Graham and Richard Baxell. They will be talking on the topic:Public support and governmental obstruction: differing British responses to the struggle of the Spanish Republic. The IBMT-organised event will take place from 2pm to 3.30pm […]
The IBMT's Annual General Meeting was held on 5 October 2024 at The Stable, 129 High Street, Weston-Super-Mare BS23 1HN. These minutes are subject to approval at the 2025 AGM. In attendanceGerry Abrahams, Mike Arnott, Paul Coles (Treasurer), Rowland Davies, Tracy Delaney, Megan Dobney (Secretary), Gary Fabian, Lorene Fabian, Pauline Fraser, Mary Greening, Hilary Jones, […]
The IBMT held its Annual General Meeting in The Stable, Weston-super-Mare, on 5 October as a part of a weekend of commemorative, educational and social activities. IBMT Archivist and historian Alan Lloyd gave a presentation on the International Brigade volunteers from Somerset and on the IBMT's online database of volunteers. Nicola Garbett and Scott Paynter, […]
My name is Erald Pashaj, from Tirana, Albania and I am the grandson of Iljaz Pashaj, (1908-1992), an ex-member of Garibaldi Battalion. While navigating the internet about the new Democratic Memory Law in Spain, I found your organisation and I was astonished by the great work that you are doing as IBMT to keep alive […]
Ali Zahid considers the involvement of Greek seafarers in the Spanish Civil War and describes how British veterans interceded on behalf of one of them, Nikos Karagiannis, who was interned by the British at the end of the Second World War as Greece was plunged into civil war. Growing up in a working class family […]
News from the annual Glasgow commemoration held on Saturday 21 September at La Pasionaria Statue, Custom House Quay … Neil Anderson presided at the commemoration on behalf of hosts Hope not Hate Glasgow. A large gathering heard speeches by Mike Arnott, IBMT Scotland Secretary, Africa Moreno, PCE Exterior, Nathan Hennerbry, MB Scotland Youth Committee, Jennifer […]
Robbie MacDonald writes… Italian volunteers in the International Brigade and resistance to fascism in the past, present and future were highlighted at an event in Greater Manchester. Members of the IBMT-affiliated North West International Brigade Memorial Group were among speakers at the event called Resistance Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow held at Salford's Working Class Movement […]
The IBMT’s 2024 AGM will be held on 5 October from 2.30pm-4pm in The Stable, 3-6 Wadham Street, BS23 2JY. All members can attend and take part in proceedings. The AGM is part of a weekend of commemorative, educational and social activities in Weston-super-Mare and Bristol from the evening of Friday 4 October to Sunday […]
Cover: Camilo Morán, 4, laying a wreath on behalf of the PCE Spanish Communist Party in July at the IBMT’s annual commemoration in London. Issue 3-2024 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has been emailed to all paid-up members. On the cover is Camilo Morán, 4, laying a wreath on behalf of the PCE […]
Crispin Green explains why he has created a graphic novel, ‘Meeting Trouble Half Way’, telling the story of his grandparents, George and Nan Green, in the Spanish Civil War. In 2015 I started to sketch scenes related to International Brigade volunteers and Spain. This helped to bridge a gap to the past after my father, […]
This tribute by nephew Neil Cooney was given on 15 August 2024 at a celebration held in Aberdeen on the 40th anniversary of Bob Cooney’s death. Bob Cooney was born in Sunderland on 12 November 1907, the seventh and last child of an ambitious Aberdeen family. His father, Sandy, a cooper, moved around the country […]
Andy Jones reports from the annual No Pasarán Memorial Committee North Lanarkshire commemoration … The No Pasarán Memorial Committee of North Lanarkshire held its annual memorial on Sunday 28 July in the Duchess of Hamilton Park Motherwell. A large crowd attended the event. Committee members Frankie McGuinness Jim Baxter, John Milligan, Brian Molloy and Andy […]
