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IBMT Newsletter Issue 35 / 2-2013 INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE MEMORIAL TRUST IBMT Newsletter www.international-brigades.org.uk Issue 35 / 2-2013 INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE MEMORIAL TRUST Concert in Spain remembers the volunteers from Britain and Ireland Plus: 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Ebro Gallo Rojo will perform on Saturday evening. Notice of the International Brigade Memorial Trust’s Annual General Meeting on Saturday 12 October 2013 from 2pm-4:30pm in the City of Edinburgh Council Chambers, 253 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1YJ AGM agenda GNominations for officers (Chair, Weekend programme General Meeting at City of Edinburgh Secretary and Treasurer) and Council Chambers (see above) . 1 Chair’s opening remarks Executive Committee members (no Friday 11 October G7:30pm-late : “Spanish Songs 2 Apologies for absence more than 11) must be received in GReception for IBMT members and and Stories”, including Gallo Rojo, 3 Minutes of previous AGM writing by 28 September 2013. guests at the City of Edinburgh venue to be confirmed . 4 Matters arising Council Chambers (see above) from 5 Executive Committee reports GProposed items for “Any other 7pm-9pm. Sunday 13 October a) Secretary business” must be received in G1pm: Screening of “The Scots b) Treasurer writing by 6 October 2013. Saturday 12 October Who Fought Franco” , venue to be c) Membership G12.30pm: Assemble at eastern confirmed . d) Newsletter, website and GSend nominations and agenda entrance to East Princes Street new med ia items to: [secretary@international- Gardens on Waverley Bridge to GFor queries about the programme e) Education brigades.org.uk] or write to: IBMT march to the International Brigade of events contact Mike Arnott (IBMT f) Merchandise Secretary, 6 Stonells Road, London memorial for its rededication. Scotland): [dundeetuc@ hotmail. g) “Antifascistas” exhibition SW11 6HQ. G2pm-4:30pm: IBMT Annual com]; tel: 07951 443 656. h) Ireland i) Scotland International Brigade memorial in j) Wales East Princes Street Gardens k) North-West 6 Election of officers and Executive Committee members 7 Any other business 8 Date and place of next AGM 9 Chair’s closing remarks NEWS IBMT joins campaign to save Madrid memorial An online petition campaign has been launched Issue 35 / 2-2013 by the AABI International Brigades friendship group in Spain to save the memorial to the Inter - 5 Cover story national Brigades in Madrid’s University City. Photo: Luis Brox Delgado By early July it had attracted 15,440 signatures from around the world. 3-9 News The capital’s Complutense University has been GJack Jones centenary ordered by the Madrid high court to remove the GNottinghamshire restores memorial by the end of August. The memorial was information board unveiled in October 2011 in the presence of four GNew plaque in Spain for Brigaders, including David Lomon from Britain. Scottish volunteers The order by the Tribunal Superior de Justicia GJarama commemoration was made on 3 June, on the grounds that the GDiffering views on George monument had been erected by the university Orwell memoir without planning permission. The university GAmnesty attacks “impunity” is insisting that it twice applied for the permis - for Franco crimes sion, but did not receive a reply from the city 10-11 From the Secretary council, which is controlled by the right-wing Popular Party. 12 Annual commemoration The IBMT donated 500 euros towards the cost 13-17 Features of the memorial. Several other International GMeet Stan Hilton Brigade associations also contributed to the GLetter to David Lomon financial appeal launched by the AABI, as did the GDonating to the Trust Madrid embassies of Argentina, Canada, Cyprus, GDonald Hutchison Norway, Russia, Serbia and Slovenia. GBattle of the Ebro Dismay 18 Can you help? The court’s decision has been greeted with dis - 18-19 Letters may by the AABI activists, who note that, though it was made on technical grounds, the original 20 Obituaries complaint was lodged by a lawyer with known 21-24 Books far-right connections. They also point out that Franco’s huge Arco de la Victoria (Victory Arch) 25 New media International Brigader David Lomon at the unveiling of the still stands at the entrance to the University City. Madrid memorial on 22 October 2011. 26 What’s on In a letter to the Spanish ambassador in Lon - don, Frederico Trillo, IBMT Secretary Jim Jump the side of a democratic government is highly The IBMT Newsletter is published twice a year said the decision would be interpreted by many damaging to the image of Spain in the outside and is sent free to all members. Back numbers people as evidence that there were institutions world,” he added. can be downloaded from the IBMT website on in Spain that had still not come to terms with the [www.international- brigades.org. country’s recent history. The petition form, which is hosted by @change.org, is in uk/newsletter.htm]. All content is the “For a Spanish court to be seen to be acting in a Spanish but this can be changed by scrolling down to the copyright © of the IBMT and credited way that denigrates the memory of those who foot of the page and choosing a different language. Go contributors and cannot be reproduced fought in Spain against European fascism and on to: [http://tinyurl.com/ke3s3uu]. without permission. Editor A motion in the House of Com - campus became a key theatre Jim Jump mons is calling on the British MPs call on British of war in November 1936 and 6 Stonells Road, London SW11 6HQ government to intervene with that this is the only memorial of 020 7228 6504 government to make the Spanish government about its kind in Madrid; and calls on [email protected] representations the threat to the International the government to make repre - Brigade memorial in Madrid. The Commons motion reads: sentations to the Spanish gov - International Brigade Memorial Trust By early July the motion had 53 “That this House notes the cur - ernment to ensure that the www.international-brigades.org.uk signatures: 44 Labour MPs, rent Spanish Supreme Court’s memorial remains in place, so Charity no: 1094928 three Liberal Democrats and instruction to the Complutense that future generations may be Plaid Cymru and one Conserva - University of Madrid to remove reminded of some of the more tive, Respect and SNP. A similar- a very modest memorial to the important moments in their worded motion in the Scottish International Brigades, includ - history.” Parliament is supported by 22 ing its British citizens, who MSPs (13 Labour, eight SNP and died during the Spanish Civil See [www.parliament.uk/edm/ one Independent). War; further notes that the 2013-14/204]. 3 NEWS Jack Jones centenary events in London and Liverpool The centenary of Jack Jones’s birth was remem - bered in Liverpool and London in March. In London there were readings from his autobi - ography, “Union Man”, and favourite songs were sung, including “I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night”, at a celebration in words and music of the life of the International Brigade veteran and for - mer trade union and pensioners’ leader. Scripted by actor and IBMT member Chris Tranchell, the DUBLIN: A plaque to event was held on 29 March – Jones’s birthday – the memory of six local at the headquarters of Unite, the union created men who joined the by the merger of his Transport & General Work - International Brigades ers’ Union with the former engineering workers’ was unveiled on 4 May at Senan Court, Emmet union Amicus. Road, Inchicore, The day before saw the unveiling in Liverpool, Dublin. Pictured above at Garston’s York Street, of a mural depicting Jack are family and friends Jones’s career, from the Liverpool docks to cam - of the volunteers. paigning for pensioners’ rights. Created by local MURAL: Sections (above and top) of the new mural in Among the speakers was IBMT Ireland Secretary Manus artists Alan Murray and Nicola Taggart and Liverpool depicting the life of Jack Jones. O’Riordan. Three of those named on the plaque (above), funded by local Labour councillors, community which was erected by the Inchicore Friends of the Interna - and housing groups and Unite, the mural high - tional Brigades, died in Spain. lights his involvement in the Spanish Civil War, in which he was injured during the Battle of the Ebro in August 1938. The unveiling took place fol - lowing a procession including local schoolchild - ren and residents. LAUGHTER: Rodney Bickerstaffe (left) sharing Jack Jones was the IBMT’s Life President until memories of Jack Jones with (from left) Imogen Lucy, he died on 21 April 2009, aged 96. IBMT President Marlene Sidaway and Chris Tranchell. Hamburg’s anti-fascists honoured AMBUSH REMEMBERED: By Ernest Walker A floral tribute (inset) stands beside the road outside the hilltop Greetings were sent from Austrian International village of Calaceite (above left) Brigader Gert Hoffmann to the annual anti-fas - marking the exact location where, cist commemorative event in Hamburg over the 75 years ago to the day, the British Battalion was ambushed by Italian troops at dawn on 31 March 1938. A weekend of 31 May to 2 June. Organised by the dozen Britons were killed and 140 captured. The KFSR – the IBMT’s sister organisation in Ger - remembrance at the site in Aragon was led by many –the international gathering this year Barcelona-based Spanish Civil War battlefield tour remembered the 40th anniversary of the military guide Alan Warren, along with two of his tour party. coup in Chile. MUSIC: From Peter There was a visit to the Ernst Thälmann Memo - Schenzer and Dirk Wilke. rial House to remember the leader of the KPD anti-fascist struggle. Music was provided by LONDON: The IBMT was invited to lay a wreath at the German Communist Party, who was arrested by Peter Schenzer and Dirk Wilke, singing “Viva la Soviet War Memorial at Mary Harmsworth Park, south London, on 9 May, with this year’s Victory Day commemo - the Nazis in 1933 and subsequently executed – Quince Brigada”, “Bella Ciao”, “The Peat Bog ration marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Stal - and who gave his name to the Thälmann Battal - Soldiers” and “The Internationale”.
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