See more photos here.[All photos © Kevin Cooper Photoline NUJ unless others attributed] The Cairde Community Choir sing at the opening ceremony in Belfast City Hall A minute's silence was observed at the International Brigade memorial in Writer's Square. Claire Hanna MP, leader of the SDLP, at Writer's Square. She said her great uncle, Richard […]
Ireland’s singing and songwriting legend Christy Moore has sent this message, including a rendition of ‘Viva la Quince Brigada’, to the IBMT’s 2025 Annual General Meeting in Belfast. The AGM was held over the weekend of 3-5 October. Moore is an IBMT Patron and has done much to spread the story of the Irish volunteers […]
Several greetings were sent to the IBMT’s Annual General Meeting, held in Belfast on 4 October. As well as those reproduced below, there were messages delivered in person by Nancy Wallach from the New York-based Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives, by Ewald Peter Schulz from the German association KFSR (Kämpfer und Freunde del Spanischen Republik 1936-1939) […]
Cover: volunteers Nieves Hernández and Maica Gómez tend to the plants in Fuencarral Cemetery in the scorching Madrid sunshine. Issue 3-2025 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has been emailed to all paid-up members. On the cover, volunteers Nieves Hernández and Maica Gómez tend to the plants in Fuencarral Cemetery in the scorching Madrid sunshine. […]
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled. The fight against Franco and the rising tide of European fascism united progressive forces from all communities in Belfast. Sectarian and other divisions were cast aside and some 50 […]
Members of the Scottish Parliament are supporting a motion paying tribute to the anti-fascists in Aberdeen who 90 years ago on 25 September 1935 closed down a meeting organised by the British Union of Fascists in the city’s Music Hall (pictured). Among the leaders of the action was Bob Cooney, who later joined the International […]
Pedro Olivares Martínez, who served on Alicante’s Civic Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory, writes about Archibald Dickson, the Welshman who captained the last ship taking Spanish Republican refugees to safety as fascist troops entered the city… By the end of March 1939, the Spanish Civil War was about to end after three years […]
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'. […]
