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September 2018 ¡NO PASARÁN! International Brigade Memorial Trust l 3-2018 l £5 Artists for Spain How they rallied to the anti-fascist cause in the Spanish Civil War ¡NO PASARÁN! Magazine of the International Brigade Memorial Trust No.49 l 3-2018 t Cover story Christine Lindey describes the way that British artists supported the Spanish Republic: see pages 11-14. Part of an opening sequence of images in the films being produced 3 News by the IBMT and Marx Memorial Library to publicise the archives. l Fascist graffiti in Spain, plus new memorials in Wigan and for two nurses Archive catalogue goes online 6 London Southbank commemoration The new catalogue for the Marx short films for social media to son of Dr Len Crome, who was 8 Secretarial notes Memorial Library’s archives of publicise the archives, which the Chief Medical Officer of the l War reporting in Spain and today the International Brigades and comprise by far the largest Spanish Republic’s XV Army Spanish Civil War is now online collection in Britain of material Corps, including the British 10 Alicante honours sea captain and fully searchable by subject concerning the Spanish Civil Battalion and other mainly l Bust of Archibald Dickson unveiled matter, place or name. Listing War. Each film will cover English-speaking units of 15th more than 8,000 items and separate themes of trade unions, International Brigade. Peter has 11 Artists for Spain 2,500 newly digitised women, internationalism, anti- recently donated his father’s photographs, the catalogue has fascism and refugees. A pilot for papers concerning the 14 La Pasionaria’s farewell speech been created as a joint project the video on trade unions was International Brigades and l 80 years ago in Barcelona with the IBMT and with the screened at a launch event at Spain to the library. help of funding from The the library in London on 24 July. To search the catalogue, go 16 Battle of the Ebro National Archives. The films will be rolled out to the Marx Memorial Library’s l Bob Cooney’s memoir Following completion of the starting this autumn. website (www.marx-memorial- cataloguing work earlier this The main speaker at the library.org.uk) and click ‘Search 18 Letters year, the IBMT and library launch was Professor Peter our catalogue’ in the are now producing a series of Crome, IBMT Patron and the ‘Collections’ menu item. 20 Books and the arts l Including a new biography of Franco Clapton CFC’s away kit is a winner 22 Notice of Annual General Meeting Fans of Clapton Community Football Club in east London have voted to dedicate their 2018/19 ¡No Pasarán! (formerly the IBMT Magazine and season away strip to the International Brigades. the IBMT Newsletter) is published three times a The new team kit is in the red, yellow and purple year. Back numbers can be downloaded from of the Spanish Republic and features the three- the IBMT website. All content is the © of the pointed star of the International Brigades and ‘No IBMT and credited contributors and cannot be pasarán’ on the back of the shirt. reproduced without written permission. Views Clapton CFC’s Iain Aitch reports that the ‘clear expressed are not necessarily those of the IBMT. winner’ in the ballot to choose a theme for the strip was one paying tribute to the International Editor Jim Jump Brigades. ‘Our fans are something of an IBMT, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU international mix and are known for their anti- 020 7253 8748 fascist stance and work in the community,’ he [email protected] Wearing the colours of the Spanish Republic, says. ‘So this choice made a lot of sense.’ Stefan Nielsen (right) is congratulated by Stefan Clapton CFC (www.claptoncfc.co.uk) is a fan- International Brigade Memorial Trust Kilron after scoring in Clapton CFC’s 5-2 victory owned resurrection of the historic Forest Gate www.international-brigades.org.uk over Wanderers FC on 25 August. team, five time winners of the FA Amateur Cup. ¡NO PASARÁN! 3 NEWS FAMILY AFFAIR: Spanish Civil War nurse Mary Slater (1903-1983) was honoured in her home town of Preston on 16 June with a memorial plaque (below). The plaque was unveiled by family member Vera Stephens, pictured here with local IBMT activist Terry Bayes. The plaque The International Brigade in the city centre’s Peace Garden was Memorial Trust keeps alive inaugurated as part of Preston’s the memory and spirit of annual People’s Festival. the men and women who volunteered to fight fascism and defend democracy in Spain from 1936 to 1939 International Brigade Memorial Trust 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU 020 7253 8748 [email protected] www.international-brigades.org.uk Registered charity no.1094928 President Marlene Sidaway [email protected] Chair Richard Baxell [email protected] Secretary Jim Jump [email protected] Treasurer Manuel Moreno [email protected] REMEMBERED: Tributes were paid to Derbyshire Ireland Secretary Manus O’Riordan miner Tom Gaunt on 15 June at a rededication of [email protected] a plaque in his memory (under the flag), which Scotland Secretary Mike Arnott was originally installed in Clowne Parish House in [email protected] 2009. Local IBMT member Paul Hardy (second Wales Secretary Mary Greening from right) pointed out that this year marked the [email protected] 80th anniversary of Gaunt’s death in Aragón in SPANISH BULL: Annual commemoration in Renton Merchandise Officer Chris Hall March 1938 and went on to read John Cornford’s on 13 May for the International Brigade volunteers [email protected] poem ‘A Letter from Aragon’. from Dunbartonshire. Film Coordinator Marshall Mateer [email protected] Education Officer Richard Thorpe [email protected] Other Executive Committee members Lisa Croft, Pauline Fraser, Alex Gordon, John Haywood Founding Chair Professor Paul Preston WIGAN: Spain’s Patrons Professor Peter Crome, Hywel Francis, Day of the Professor Helen Graham, Ken Livingstone, Republic, 14 April, Len McCluskey, Christy Moore, Jack O’Connor, saw the unveiling Maxine Peake, Baroness Royall of Blaisdon, of a new Mick Whelan memorial to the International facebook.com/groups/7123291063 Brigaders from twitter.com/IBMT_SCW Wigan, which youtube.com/user/IBMTnews stands next to flickr.com/photos/ibmt Wigan Town Hall. 4 ¡NO PASARÁN! International Brigade Memorial Trust Launching the IBMT raffle Readers in the UK will find two books of IBMT raffle tickets (10 tickets per book at £1 a ticket) enclosed with their copy of ¡No Pasarán!. We hope every member will either buy the tickets or sell them on to family and friends. Fundraising initiatives of this sort are crucial in helping us to continue our work in maintaining the memory and spirit of the International Brigades. The IBMT No Pasarán Raffle BANNER BRIGHT: British banner artist Ed Hall (second from right) hands over offers some wonderful prizes, a new banner for the Antwerp region of the ABVV-AC Belgian workers’ union. many of them donated by IBMT The banner pays tribute to Belgian International Brigader Piet Akkerman, who supporters. The draw will take was killed at Algora, near Guadalajara, in January 1937 while fighting with the place in the IBMT Office, 37a André Marty Battalion, in which he was a political commissar. Taking proud Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R possession of the banner, which shows Piet resplendent in a tie in Spanish 0DU at 11am on 4 October 2019. Republican colours, are ABVV-AC Regional Secretary Ronny Le Blon (left) and Do support us in this way, or, activist Levi Sollie outside London’s St Pancras International Station as they if you don’t approve of gambling, are about to board the Eurostar back to Antwerp. please make a donation instead One of the first outings of the banner was at a ceremony in May to name to assist our work and return the an Antwerp street after Akkerman. The union used the event to celebrate books to the IBMT at the above Piet’s role as a trade unionist in the diamond cutters’ union (now part of address so that they can be sold FORGOTTEN HEROINE: A plaque ABVV-AC) and especially as an International Brigader. on to others. If you would like (above) was unveiled on 12 May additional raffle ticket books to Madge Addy, the Spanish Civil contact the IBMT (admin@ War nurse turned British secret international-brigades.org.uk or agent in wartime France. The 020 7253 8748). memorial is on her last known Return all completed stubs Manchester address in Chorlton- and cheques, payable to the cum-Hardy’s Manchester Road. IBMT, to our address given above. In Spain Madge Addy was the Note that each ticket purchaser’s head nurse of the International telephone number is all that is Brigade hospital at Uclés. needed on each stub. When She was living in Paris when the returning tickets and money, Nazis invaded in 1940 and stayed in please also give your own name occupied France, working for Britain’s and phone number. Good luck! Special Operations Executive. She helped organise clandestine escape routes and delivered secret FASCIST DAUBINGS: Spanish neo- In the province of La Rioja in northern Recruit a friend messages sewn into the lining of Nazis defaced the newly inaugurated Spain, also on the eve of May Day, her clothes – for which she was memorial to the International neo-Nazis attacked a cemetery near Also enclosed with this issue of later awarded an OBE. Brigades (above) in the southern Logroño containing the remains of our magazine is the IBMT’s Her extraordinary story was Madrid suburb of Vicálvaro on the more than 400 Spanish Republicans membership recruitment brochure.
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