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Ibmtnewsletter Issueno.42 Datesannouncedforibmt-Backed 2-2016 Playaboutbeckettandcaudwell IBMT Newsletter www.international-brigades.org.uk Issue 42 / 2-2016 INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE MEMORIALTRUST Defying thehostile political climate RemembranceinWarsaw NEWS IBMTNewsletter Issueno.42 DatesannouncedforIBMT-backed 2-2016 playaboutBeckettandCaudwell The IBMT-commissioned play about the Interna - mation of the International Brigades in October Coverstory tional Brigades, “Dare Devil Rides to Jarama”, 1936 and the Battle of Jarama in February 1937. ZuzaZi ó kowskacarriesawreathtolayatthe will be premiered on 24 September in Bedford at LouiseTownsend ofTownsend Productions the start of a tour around theatres in Britain that says the play will shed light on the political and TombofłtheUnknownSoldierinWarsaw: page7 will run until 3 December. social world of the 1930s and all that inspired Venues and dates for a busy autumn pro - 3-9 News gramme of 45 performances have now been “Theplaywillcommemorate IncludingareportfromtheIBMT’sannual announced (see notice on left). A second leg of andcelebratethecontribution lecturedayinManchesteron12March tour dates will commence early in 2017. 10 Secretarialnotes “Dare Devil Rides to Jarama” is centred on the andsacrificeofthevolunteer JimJumpwrites contrasting lives of International Brigaders Clem InternationalBrigades…” Beckett and Christopher Caudwell. Beckett was 11-17 Features a Lancashire blacksmith and famous star of the and confronted the Brigaders on their journeys GInsearchofaHullBrigader speedway track, while Caudwell was a renowned to Spain. GEllenWilkinsonandtheSpanishCivilWar writer, poet and Marxist philosopher. She adds: “The play will commemorate and GAfamilymysterysolved,thankstothe They were killed together at Jarama, having celebrate the contribution and sacrifice of the IBMTandOwenJones become friends and comrades as members of volunteer International Brigades from all over GTheroleplayedbytheILPinSpain the British Battalion’s machine-gun company. the world, including 2,500 from Britain and GSpanishRepublicanexilesandrefugeesin Written by Neil Gore and produced by Ireland, who recognised that the defence of Britaininthe1940s Townsend Productions, the play will be per - Spanish democracy against fascism was their 17 Canyouhelp? formed during the 80th anniversaries of the for - fight too.” 18 Obituaries DelmerBerg,LuisQuesada 18 Letters GlasgowtohostFrankCasey’ssculpturetribute FromChristinaElliott,TomSibleyandRoss Bradshaw 19-21 Books Merchantseafarerstobe Includingacollectionof“lost”photostaken byAlecWainmanandanewstudyofthe internationalcommunistmovementandthe SpanishCivilWar honouredontheClyde 22 What’son By Ronnie Moran Glasgow City Council has identified a site for the memorial for seafarers who ran the block - TheIBMTNewsletter ispublishedthreetimes ade of Spanish Republican ports. It is on the ayearandissentfreetoallmembers.Back Clyde walkway on the west side of the Jamaica numberscanbedownloadedfromtheIBMT Street Bridge.This is not far from the La Pasion - websiteon [www.international- brigades.org. aria memorial to the International Brigades and uk /newsletter.htm].Allcontentisthe coincidentally across the road from the site of copyright©oftheIBMTandcredited the old Glasgow “Pool” (hiring hall) building contributorsandcannotbereproduced that the Merchant Navy operated from. withoutwrittenpermission. The campaign to get a site for this memorial Editor has been a long one. Sculptor Frank Casey first JimJump approached the RMT Glasgow Shipping Branch 37aClerkenwellGreen,LondonEC1R0DU when I was Branch Secretary some 14 or 15 02072538748 years ago. [email protected] The campaign gathered pace three years ago when I attended a ceremony in Glasgow city InternationalBrigadeMemorialTrust chambers to commemorate the war dead of www.international-brigades.org.uk Britain’s Merchant Navy.The commemoration Registeredcharityno.1094928 was the first of its kind in Glasgow and had been organised by Baillie Nina Baker. She has a nautical background, having been a deck officer in the Merchant Navy and had taught at PartofthemaquetteforFrank Glasgow Nautical College. Casey’ssculpture.Themodel Nina, a Green Party councillor, was on the city forthebackgroundsketchis planning committee and when I talked about Frank’sgrandsonSeanQuinn. Continued overleaf 3 NEWS Seafarers’memorial From previous page the blockade runners’ memorial she was enthusiastic.The Spanish CivilWar was some - thing she had always had a special interest in. Since that meeting RMT Glasgow Shipping Branch, Frank and myself have been working with Nina and after three years we have a great result.We now have the formality of an applica - tion for planning permission. The main parts of the memorial, a plaque with the Merchant Navy badge superimposed over a map of Spain, a description of the ships’ mission A HEAVY TOLL: British ships and seafarers trading with Republican Spain during the Spanish CivilWar suffered serious CHEERING:AroundtheIBMT’s casualties. A report published by the NorthWestbanneronSuicideHill. Republic’s embassy in London in 1938 calculated that, between July 1936 and June 1938, 13 British merchant ships were sunk by Jaramaevent‘evenbigger’nextyear enemy action, 51 others were bombed from the air, two were mined, five were attacked ByMarkHoskisson to defend democracy. Poems, that great rally took place, by submarines and 23 seized or detained by songs, speeches and a bag - over 100 people listened to Franco’s forces.Thirty-five British seamen On Friday and Saturday 19-20 pipe lament featured in the speeches from Kevan Nelson, had been killed in these attacks and nearly February the courage of the ceremony that commemo - the NorthWest Regional 50 badly injured.The Royal Navy also lost International Brigades to rated both the International Secretary of Unison, and eight killed when in May 1937 the destroyer defend Madrid at the Battle of Brigades and the Spanish vic - Charles Jepson of the IBMT HMS Hunter struck a mine laid by Franco’s Jarama was commemorated tims of Franco’s brutal reign. Executive Committee. navy south of Almería. by IBMT supporters in Spain. On Saturday one delegation The delegations from Unite, TogetherwithourSpanish visited the positions of the ASLEF, Unison, the NUT and in taking much needed supplies to the Spanish brothersandsistersoftheAABI Polish Dombrowski Battalion other unions told IBMT mem - Republican government and bringing back InternationalBrigadesfriend - of volunteers who held the line bers to prepare for an even refugees, many of them orphans, along with a shipgroup,threeeventssaw at Jarama against the fascist bigger delegation from the list of names of ships lost during this mission. thebannersofBritishtrade advance. trade union movement next The other part is a figure left to the viewer’s unionsunitedwiththoseofthe year – the 80th anniversary of interpretation but called “the warning shout” SpanishRepublicinamagnifi - Paid respects the battle. by the sculptor (see photo on page 3). Both centdisplayofsolidarityand Another delegation paid its The gathering ended with a sections are complete and in Glasgow, stored internationalism. respects to the British and tumultuous rendition of “The in the basement of the ScottishTUC. AtTarancón, on the Friday, Irish Brigaders who fought Internationale” and was fol - All that is required now is the building of a the memorial to the Scottish and died on Suicide Hill and lowed by a social gathering plinth to house the memorial. Once all this volunteers – authorised by the who rallied, under the leader - with comrades from all over is done we can look forward to the unveiling socialist mayor of the town – ship of Frank Ryan, to form an the world in nearby Morata. ceremony. was the site of a moving trib - unbreakable line of defence. ute led by the family ofWilliam At the monument to the MarkHoskissonisanIBMTandUnite RonnieMoranisamemberoftheIBMTandRMTGlasgow Crawford, who fell in the battle International Brigades where memberfromLiverpool. ShippingBranch. IBMT members and supporters in Dumfries representatives, local residents and a Reme mberingJackBrent marked the 10th anniversary of the Dumfries and Galloway local councillor. unveiling of the plaque to Jack Brent in The commemoration consisted of several his home town ofWhithorn on 24 February, short speeches, the reciting by Ronnie reports Stuart Hyslop. Moran of RMT of the poem “Salud, Brigade – The event was arranged to coincide with Salud!” and closed with an emotive reading the Battle of Jarama, in which Jack Brent was by SandraTrotter of the Dumfries Branch of severely wounded by fascist machine-gun the Communist Party of La Pasionaria’s fire while rescuing a fallen comrade. memorable address to the departing Brent – whose real name was Geordie International Brigaders. Dickie – became the Secretary of the Copies of “Geordie’s Story”, the recent International Brigade Association after biography of Jack Brent written by his the war in Spain. He died aged 39. nephew John Dickie, were on display and the SPEAKING:StuartHyslopinfrontoftheplaqueonthe TheWhithorn gathering, at which a event was given favourable coverage in a formerbutcher’sshopwhereBrentworkedasayoungman. wreath was laid, was attended by union number of the region’s newspapers. 4 International Brigade Memorial Trust Executedvolunteer’ssignatureondisplayalongsidePicasso’s‘Guernica’ What ’sinanameonapamphlet? How did a pamphlet that was signed by a LEFT:Copyofthe Scottish International Brigader come to be pamphletonshowin displayed in a Madrid art gallery alongside MadridattheReina Picasso’s
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