By Louise Walker of Blackhill BreweryFrom her blog at www.blackhillbrewery.com/blackhill-brewery-blog The launch of Brigadista Ale was a huge day for us. When we were approached to make Brigadista, we thought it would be a small one-off brew, but were delighted to help, we had no idea what it was about to become and people would […]
A two-week 80th anniversary celebration of the International Brigades will be hosted by the Marx Memorial Library in London on 17-30 October 2016. Events will be supported by the IBMT, Unite the Union and Townsend Productions, whose new play 'Dare Devil Rides to Jarama' will be performed during the fortnight of activities.
Rien Dijkstra, Secretary of the Dutch-based Stichting Spanje 1936-1939 (www.spanje3639.org) International Brigades memorial group, writes… Symposium From Belgium 2,400 volunteers went to Spain: 1,600 Belgian and 800 from other countries. A symposium about them is being organised by The Friends of CegeSoma & Amsab-ISG (CegeSoma is a historical research institute in Belgium). See English-language […]
Highlights of the commemorative events at the IBMT Annual General Meeting in October 2015 in Aberdeen have been compiled on film by the IBMT Film Coordinator Marshall Mateer. See: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rczH1aeVHuM&feature=youtu.be The film includes: the welcome in Aberdeen Town House by Councillor Neil Cooney; the unveiling of plaques to volunteers Bob Cooney and John […]
By Pauline Fraser This is a tale of two 20-year-olds, Sam Lesser and John Cornford, who went to Spain to fight fascism and defend democracy. They fought in University City, Madrid, and later went south, by train, to Andújar, in Andalusia, to fight in the XIV Brigade. They fought in the hills and […]
Pauline Fraser writes… I’ve always loved Irish music, but never more so than on our recent commemorative visit to Andalusia. A group of musicians, the Armagh Rhymers, accompanied FIBI, the Friends of the International Brigades in Ireland, on the recent commemorations around Córdoba (on 8/9 April). FIBI organised an entire coachload of members to pay […]
By Kerstin Hommel of the KFSR International Brigades memorial association in Germany We are organising an international workcamp in the summer with the organisacion Young Volunteers VJF from 22 August to 2 September at the memorial cemetery Berlin-Friedrichsfelde, where many Brigaders and Spaniards in exile are buried. In the attached INFORMATION SHEET WORKCAMP […]
Are you related to a Brigader from the Spanish Civil War? The STV would like to hear from you. The STV's The People’s History show is doing a number of pieces on the Spanish Civil War and would like to interview Brigaders' families for this show. Ian Hendry of STV said: ‘I’m aware […]
By Colin Carritt Our project is to have a permanent IBMT memorial in Oxford to the 31 men and women from Oxfordshire who went to Spain to defend the Spanish Republic during the Civil War, 1936-39. This update explains where we are with our planning application and other news. After much hand-wringing, Oxford […]
IBMT President, Marlene Sidaway and Treasurer, Manuel Moreno, in front of the national memorial in Jubilee Gardens on London's South Bank.
An all-Wales group, IB Cymru (International Brigade Wales), has been launched in the 80th anniversary year to commemorate the Welshman and women who went to Spain to serve the Republic in the Spanish Civil War. The group is the brainchild of Mary Greening, whose father, Edwin, was one of more than 200 Welsh people who […]
Address at Belalcázar, on 8 April 2016 by Manus O’Riordan, Ireland Secretary of the IBMT and executive member, Friends of the International Brigades in Ireland. Before the actual formation of the International Brigades, there were already three Irish volunteers fighting in defence of the Spanish Republic, two of whom would give their lives in defence […]
