Doc Ritchie of AVzounds writes… No Pasaran! is a 30-minute musical documentary about the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War and uses electronic beats, voice-overs, samples, contemporary songs and music to tell a story of great courage, danger, and political conflict. Listen to it here. In 1986, I was in Barcelona, 50 years after […]
Jeremi Galdamez, of the Freedom Volunteers Association (Stowarzyszenie Ochotnicy Wolności) of Poland, writes… Polish threads in the Civil War in Spain (1936-1939)” – exhibition in Warsaw. July 7 to October 1, 2023. Vernissage: July 7, 5:00 pm. An exhibition in Warsaw from 7 July to 1 October recalls the participation of volunteers from Poland in […]
The IBMT’s latest eye-catching t-shirt is a tribute to the women who volunteered to support the cause of anti-fascism in the Spanish Civil War. The image is based on a sketch of a militiawoman by Felicia Browne, an artist from Thames Ditton, Surrey, who was herself a militiawoman in Spain. The woman in the original […]
Tony Fox writes… Throughout the world there are many memorials to the International Brigades. Yet, until now, there has been no public memorial to the International Brigades on Teesside. Thanks to John Christie this omission is now remedied. It was back in April 2018 after the first performance of ‘The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff’ by […]
Lynda Walker of the Belfast-based International Brigade Commemoration Committee writes… It is with great sadness that we heard of Joe Mulheron’s death on 9 May. Joe was born in Belfast and lived in the New Lodge, but he made his home in Derry. He was a political activist for civil rights and many other causes. […]
Our friends in ALBA (Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives) have announced a 5 July deadline for submissions to this year’s George Watt essay competition. The competition was established in 1998 to honour International Brigader George Watt (pictured below), a writer and lifelong activist central to the creation of the US-based ALBA. Students from anywhere in the […]
A new memorial to International Brigade volunteers who died in the Battle of Jarama was unveiled by the Morata de Tajuña City Council on 29 April 2023. The unveiling follows researcher José María Olivera Marco’s rediscovery of the site of the first Jarama battlefield monument from 1937 and his campaign for a new memorial. An […]
Issue 2-2023 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has gone out to all paid-up members in the form of an email link. The cover story is a piece by IBMT member Kate Armstrong, explaining how she discovered the identity of her International Brigader great uncle Alec Armstrong. Her reflections touch on the importance of […]
The IBMT is proud to announce the publication of an anthology of memoirs, essays and poems from the pages of the Trust’s magazine over the past 20 years. Edited by Joshua Newmark and generously illustrated, ‘Remembering Spain’ features contributions from more than 50 authors. They include historians Richard Baxell, Helen Graham, Angela Jackson, Paul Preston […]
British Battalion commissar Bob Cooney wrote the following piece in the 1 May 1938 issue of the Volunteer for Liberty, the official newspaper of the English-speaking International Brigades. In the final section Cooney mentions the United Peace Alliance. This was a campaign initiated by Sydney Elliot, editor of the co-operative newspaper Reynold’s News, for the […]
In 2022, researcher José María Olivera Marco was able to find the exact site of the battlefield memorial built by the 15th International Brigade in the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Jarama. After months of discussion with the Morata de Tajuña Town Council, it was finally decided that a replica of the original memorial […]
Colin Carritt, Chair of the IBMT-affiliated Oxford International Brigade Memorial Committee, reports on 'Today The Struggle', an evening of poetry and music hosted by the Oxford group on 18 April 2023. Poetry is fundamental to the human condition. Every war, every conflict, inspires an outpouring of literature and verse and the Spanish Civil War more […]
