Events

28 June CARDIFF – Annual commemoration at the Wales International Brigade memorial in Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff CF10 3NB; 11.30am; music, speeches and remembrance; speakers include Mary Greening, Daryl Leeworthy, Rob Griffiths and David McKnight. Music from Cor Cochion Caerdydd. A collection will be taken in aid of MAP (Medical for Palestinians). Contact IBMT Wales Secretary David McKnight or Mary Greening of IB Cymru for more information.

2 July LONDON – Talk on ‘Women and the Spanish Civil War’ by Meirian Jump, Director of the Marx Memorial Library. 7pm at the People’s Letters Bookshop, 395 Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9RA. Part of the Cable Street Together programme. More information here.

4 July LONDON – Annual commemoration at the International Brigade memorial, Jubilee Gardens, Belvedere Road, London SE1 7PG, with remembrance, music and speakers. 1pm-2pm. Afterwards a get-together at the Camel & Artichoke, 121 Lower Marsh, London SE1 7AE. Event organised by the IBMT; contact the IBMT Secretary for more information and to indicate that you plan to lay a wreath.

11 July MANCHESTER – 'The Spanish Civil War at 90 – collections & conversations' at the People's History Museum (Leftbank, Manchester M3 3ER), from 11am to 5pm, with talks, film, music and discussion. Speakers include authors Richard Baxell and Chris Hall, IBMT Trustee Dolores Long and IBMT Film Coordinator Marshall Mateer. More information here.

17 July PORTSMOUTH – Unveiling of a stone memorial bench organised by Portsmouth Trades Union Council to commemorate local International Brigaders; 12pm in Victoria Park, 3 Stanhope Road, Portsmouth PO1 3HJ. The memorial will name the six volunteers from the greater Portsmouth area who died in Spain and the seven who returned. More information from the IBMT’s Alan Lloyd.

26 July MOTHERWELL – No Pasarán Memorial Committee North Lanarkshire's annual commemoration in Duchess of Hamilton Park (North 3al, 117 Avon St, Motherwell ML1 3AL); commemoration begins at 1pm; IBMT Scotland Secretary Mike Arnott will speak; afternoon social at the Railway Tavern (31 Merry St, Motherwell ML1 1JJ) will follow.

31 July BELFAST – The International Brigade Commemoration Committee presents the Féile Lecture 2026: Lin Rose Clark speaking about her grandfather, Bob Hilliard (pictured), the former Church of Ireland minister from Killarney who joined the International Brigades and was killed at the Battle of Jarama in February 1937. Shankill Library, 298-300 Shankill Road, Belfast BT13 2BN. 12pm-2.15pm. More information from 07751 951785.

5 September LONDON – Talk by IBMT Chair Jim Jump on ‘“The cause of all progressive and advanced mankind”: Soviet policy and the Spanish Civil War’; 2pm at the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies, 320 Brixton Road, London SW9 6AB; £5 (£3 for SCRSS members); event organised by the SCRSS in conjunction with the Marx Memorial Library.

3 October LONDON – Special performance by The Young’uns of ‘The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff’ telling the story in song of the International Brigader of the same name who took part in the Battle of Cable Street. 3pm and 7pm at the church of St George in the East, 14 Cannon Street Road, London E1 0BH (off Cable Street). Tickets (£29.27) on sale here.

10 October GLASGOW – The IBMT's Annual General Meeting will be held in the afternoon of Saturday 10 October as part of a weekend of commemorative and social activities. Details to follow.

7 May to 18 October EASTBOURNE – ‘Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism’ exhibition at the Towner Eastbourne, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne BN21 4JJ on the anti-fascist Artists International Association, which was founded in 1933 in response to the rise of European fascism and played a leading role in mobilising artists to support the cause of the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War.