To mark VE Day and the 70th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism, here's an extract from the current issue of the IBMT Newsletter (2-2015). Our photo shows Spanish Republican prisoners greeting Allied troops liberating the Mauthausen concentration camp in May 1945. No equivalence between fascism and communism of the volunteers By Jim […]
Justin Byrne looks forward to elections in Spain that will be a test both for the traditional two-party system and for new parties for ‘indignant’ voters. Regional elections in Andalusia on 28 March marked the start of an almost full round of elections in Spain this year. Voters all over the country will go […]
Great footage in this new 6.5 min video about International Brigade hospitals in Cuenca province during the Spanish Civil War. The film was produced by the Cuenca Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory.www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsdf7xe0fw
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This review appeared in the Morning Star on 20 April 2015 (www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-b918-Voluntary-valour-in-Spanish-civil-war...)… No Other Way: Oxfordshire and the Spanish Civil War 1936-39 by Chris Farman, Valery Rose and Liz Woolley (Oxford IBMC, £8) Review by Graham Stevenson NO OTHER Way is an exemplar of the local historical research which merits emulation in […]
A “hidden gem” of London’s radical and working class history has opened its doors properly to the public for the first time. The Marx Memorial Library (MML) is now offering guided tours twice weekly. This will allow people to see the two banners of the British Battalion in the Spanish Civil War One […]
Press release from Labour International 12 April 2015 Labour International Costa Blanca Branch arranged for a delegation of 19 Spanish members of the Alicante Civic Commission for the Recovery of Historical Memory to visit Cardiff on 11 and 12 April to present a memorial plaque to the city at a ceremony hosted by the […]
This was in the Paul Routledge column (every Friday in the Daily Mirror) on 3 April. To order your copy of this 'fascinating, instructive, heart-rending' book for just £15 including p&p, go to our Merchandise secton.
The “Welsh Schindler” of the Spanish Civil War, who rescued thousands of Spaniards from advancing fascist troops, is to be remembered in Cardiff this weekend (11/12 April 2015). A group of Spaniards will travel from Alicante to Cardiff and join local groups in honouring Cardiff sea captain Archibald Dickson. Dickson was the master […]
‘Spanish Thermopylae: the Cypriot Contribution to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War’ Talk given by Paul Philippou, University of Cyprus, 19-20 February 2015 Spanish Civil War scholarship has in the main reflected the ideological divisions of the Civil War and of the machinations of Cold War politics. This has been especially true of […]
JACK THE BLASTER examines Spain’s rich tradition of left-wing politics, in an article that appeared in the Morning Star on 23 March 2015 (www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-1294-A-PROUD-HISTORY-OF-RADICALISM#.VRWQJk...)… A proud history of radicalism The history of Spanish radicalism is long and proud. The Iberian peninsula became a crucible for the conflicting political philosophies of the 20th […]
At our annual commemoration in London on 4 July, IBMT supporters will be able to hear songs from the Spanish Civil War musical 'No Pasarán!' sung by members of the cast. They will be performed at the IBMT social at the Camel & Artichoke (121 Lower Marsh Street, SE1 7AE) at 4pm. Entry is free, […]
