This blog is written by Paul McNamara, one half of the folk duo na-mara, and is taken from the blog on na-mara’s website (http://na-mara.com/blog). To the casual eye, modern day Croydon, with its mid-rise office blocks, its fancy shopping centres and its busy commuter station, feels like many towns in south-east England. It is interesting […]
Amanda Richards of the George Brown Memorial Committee reports on her visit in June to Villanueva de la Cañada, north-west of Madrid, where Irish-born George Brown, political commissar of the XV Brigade’s British Battalion, was killed during the Battle of Brunete in July 1937. It was a hot, Saturday afternoon when I arrived into […]
From the Morning Star of 4 July 2016… Hundreds gathered on London’s South Bank at the weekend to pay tribute to the International Brigades of the Spanish civil war. In poetry, music and words they remembered the 2,500 volunteers, of whom 526 gave their lives, from Britain and Ireland who defended the elected […]
You can help raise funds for the planned memorial to the International Brigades in Oxford (see sculptor Charlie Carter’s impression below) by purchasing these items: Miró image t-shirts: small, medium, large and extra large. All £15 each plus £3 p&p "From Blantyre to Barcelona" CDs. Wonderful Spanish Civil War contemporary and modern songs […]
ACER, our sister organisation in France, inaugurated a plaque on 4 June in Montreuil in eastern Paris. The plaque honours the volunteers of the International Brigades and the Spanish Republicans who participated in the Resistance. It is dated 1936 to 1945, encompassing the full struggle to defeat fascism. Posted 27 June 2016
Almudena Cros of the AABI Association of Friends of the International Brigades in Spain has sent us this updated information about the 80th anniversary events in Spain in October. See also the ‘80th anniversary events in Spain’ posting on 17 June. Dear Friends, I am writing to clarify two aspects of the anniversary […]
Visitors to Paris this summer may be interested in an exhibition on the International Brigades from 28 June to 31 August at the Musée du Général Leclerc de Hautecloque et de la Libération de Paris, 23 allée de la 2e DB Jardin Atlantique (near Montparnasse railway station), 75015 Paris. Co-sponsored by the IBMT’s sister […]
Message received from Maciej Sanigórski and Jeremi Galdamez in Poland… On the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, we cordially invite you, IBMT members, to the celebrations in Warsaw at 12pm on 16 July commemorating the Polish volounteers in the International Brigades. It is very important for us as it’s the first […]
This message was received on 16 June from the Madrid-based AABI Internatinal Brigades friendship group. We are suggesting the following dates for the 80th anniversary trip in October 2016. The dates are not likely to change, although the events for some of the days might vary a bit (Jarama/Guadalajara, etc). OCTOBER 22: […]
The grandson and great grandson of James Bentley, a volunteer from Hull, are each walking 40 miles to raise money for a memorial to the eight men from Hull who fought in the Spanish Civil War. Please follow the link to support them by donating money to their cause. https://crowdfunding.justgiving.com/8menfromhull?utm_id=2&utm_term=8jkDXrRkM
Among the performers at our forthcoming commemoration in London’s Jubilee Gardens on 2 July will be the acclaimed folk duo na-mara. Thet will be playing other gigs with a Spanish Civil War connection around the same time, as Paul McNamara (one half of the duo) explains here… I thought IBMT members would be interest […]
Hundreds of people will gather on London’s South Bank on Saturday 2 July to pay respects to the legendary International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War. The 80th anniversary of the start of the war on 18 July 1936 will be marked at this year’s event. Paul Preston, foremost historian of civil war, […]
