By Almudena Cros, President of the Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales Hitherto the presence and role of the international volunteers in Andalusia has received very limited attention, particularly when compared to the homages that the brigaders have received in Madrid, Albacete, Barcelona and other places around Spain. The International Brigades saw action […]
The IBMT’s “Antifascistas” exhibition opened in Aberdeen on 1 September and will be at the Central Library (Rosemount Viaduct, AB25 1GW (9am-5pm Tues & Thurs-Sat and 9am-8pm on Mon & Weds) until 31 October. Pictured at the opening are Aberdeen Lord Provost George Adam (right) and Unite the Union regional officer Tommy Campbell. […]
Here is the timetable of events for the IBMT's Annual General Meeting weekend in Aberdeen on 16-18 October. Friday 16 October 7.30pm: Civic reception for IBMT members with the Lord Provost in the Town House (see address above). Saturday 17 October 9.30am-10.30am: Unveiling of a plaque to Brigader Bob Cooney at Bob Cooney […]
The IBMT’s Annual General Meeting will be held on Saturday 17 October from 2.30pm-5pm at the Aberdeen Town House, Broad Street, Aberdeen AB10 1AQ. All IBMT members are invited to attend the AGM and other associated events in Aberdeen over the weekend of 16-18 October. Details of the weekend's programme will be advertised separately […]
Courtesy of our friends in the Madrid-based AABI (Asociación de Amigos de las Brigadas Internacionales), here is a list a streets, squares and parks named after the International Brigades in Spain: 1. Calle de las Brigadas Internacionales, 46013 Valencia 2. Plaza de las Brigadas Internacionales, 29004 Málaga 3. Calle Brigadas Internacionales, 28805 Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) 4. Parque […]
They came from Dundee, Hull and Glasgow; from the mines of the South Wales valleys, from Northumberland and Dumfries: over 2,000 from Britain, Ireland and the Commonwealth. They left the comforts of peace, the love of their families and friends for the horror, tedium and carnage of war, because they knew that Spain’s fight was […]
Carmen Negrín is the grand-daughter of Juan Negrín (1892-1956), who was the Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic from May 1937 until Franco’s declaration of victory in April 1939 at the end of the Spanish Civil War. For the past 15 years she has been the Honorary President of the Juan Negrín Trust in Las […]
Opening remarks by IBMT Secretary Jim Jump… We should note that 2015 is of course the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The volunteers who went to Spain warned that a world war would be inevitable unless fascism was stopped in Spain. They were proved right, and the Spanish […]
“When town and gown went to war: the role of the Oxford students and residents who fought in the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939” 4 June 2015, St Giles, Oxford Hours before this fascinating event held on one of Oxford’s main thoroughfares, the Spanish novelist Javier Cercas gave an equally insightful talk slightly further […]
