Cover: committee members of the International Brigade Memorial Appeal inspect the then-unfinished sculpture for London’s Jubilee Gardens in 1985; also featured is an image of the memorial today.

Issue 2-2025 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has been emailed to all paid-up members.

On the cover, committee members of the International Brigade Memorial Appeal inspect the then-unfinished sculpture for London’s Jubilee Gardens in 1985; also featured is an image of the memorial today. IBMT Chair Jim Jump recounts the tumultuous tale of the national memorial’s creation in a three-page feature. 

Other highlights include David Grant’s introduction of the Trust’s new schools module focusing on women in the Spanish Civil War, David Margolies’s celebration of Christopher Caudwell’s contribution to Marxism and his great friendship with Clem Beckett, and Dan Carrier’s review of Crispin Green’s graphic novel about his grandparents (George and Nan Green) in Spain.

As ever, there are book reviews and reports from events and projects in Britain and beyond. 

Print issues are available from the IBMT Shop. An annual subscription for three print copies is also available to members (this option includes postage).

Members receive three issues of the digital magazine a year. Keep up to date with your membership to ensure you get the latest digital issue as soon as it is published by renewing online.

Cover: Bristol’s Red Notes Choir singing songs from the Spanish Civil War in Castle Park beneath the city’s memorial to the four Bristolians who died in Spain.

Issue 1-2025 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has been emailed to all paid-up members.

The first feature of this issue is David Grant's modern assessment of Scottish Jewish Brigader Alexander Marcowich. Battersea Brigader George Wheeler also features in Richard Baxell's speech from the 2024 annual commemoration in London's Jubilee Gardens.

Other highlights include two reports about Spain today. The first is by Juan López Páez looking at how right-wing parties in Spain are whitewashing Franco’s legacy. The second is by artist Piers Secunda and describes how he uses his artwork to support the exhumations of Franco’s victims.

As ever, there are book reviews and reports from events and projects in Britain and beyond. 

Print issues are available via the IBMT Shop. An annual subscription for three print copies is also available to members (this option includes postage).

Members receive three issues of the digital magazine a year. Keep up to date with your membership to ensure you get the latest digital issue as soon as it is published by renewing online.

Cover: Sean Cooney, member of folk trio The Young'uns.

Issue 1-2024 of the IBMT digital magazine, ¡No Pasaran!, has gone out to all paid-up members by email.

On the cover is Sean Cooney, member of folk trio The Young'uns, on stage at the IBMT’s Annual General Meeting last October in Stockton-on-Tees. Behind him is an image of local Brigader Johnny Longstaff.

Lesser-known stories take centre stage in this issue with Tony Fuller and Leonie Parkes's feature on the Brigaders who served in the Republican navy and David Ebsworth's article on the violence committed by both sides during the civil war.

Other highlights include Paul Preston’s account of the horrors of the Málaga-Almería road massacre, IBMT President Marlene Sidaway's New Year message, and reviews of ‘Forged in Spain’, ‘British Battles of the Spanish Civil War: Fighting Franco’ and ‘Tomorrow Perhaps the Future’.

Print issues are available via the IBMT Shop.

Members receive three issues of the digital magazine a year. Keep up to date with your membership to ensure you get the latest digital issue as soon as it is published by renewing online.

Posted on 19 January 2024.