Issue 46 – September 2017
IBMT Magazine www.international-brigades.org.uk Issue 46 / 3-2017 INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE MEMORIALTRUST Atth eannu al IBM T PICTURED (clockwisefromtopleft): Wreathsandflowersatthe memorial;cyclistsfromtheNationalClarionCyclingClub1895setting offforNewhavenandonwardtoBarcelonatorememberClarion CyclingClubmemberswhofoughtinSpain,includingfourwhogave theirlives;MeirianJump,manageroftheMarxMemorialLibraryand grand-daughterofInternationalBrigaderJamesJump,layingawreath; Na-maraplayingtothegathering. Photos,includingthoseonfacingpage:AndrewWiard commemorationonLondon’sSouthbank ON DECK: HerminioMartínez,withaphotoof theshipHabanathatbroughthimandnearly 4,000otherchildrefugeestoBritainin1937. RIGHT (fromtop): LenMcCluskey,MaddyCarty, ToshMcDonald,PaulPrestonandNa-mara. RoyalNavybytheinternationalnon-interventiontreaty. Talesofexile Hecontrastedtheirbehaviour,andthatofGeorge Steer,thereporterwhobrokethestoryofthebombingof Guernicatotheworld,withthepusillanimousattitudeof andinspiration theBritishgovernmenttowardsthefascistdictators. MusicatthecommemorationwasprovidedbyMaddy undredsgatheredattheInternationalBrigade CartyandNa-mara,wholedthesingingof‘Valleyof memorialonLondon’sSouthbankonSaturday Jarama’,oftencalledthe‘SongoftheBritishBattalion’. HIJulytorememberthe2,500volunteersfrom Unite’sLenMcCluskeysingledouttwovolunteers BritainandIrelandwhofoughtfascismintheSpanish whowenttoSpainfromtheT&G,aforerunnerofUnite,as CivilWar–includingthe526whodiedinSpain. examplesforthelabourmovementtoday. TheyheardspeechesfromLenMcCluskey,General JackJones,formerGeneralSecretaryoftheT&G,was
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