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RNA IONALE TE S IN D E S L O A I L R I A B T E N R U T L 1936 1939 A D O V ¡NO PASARÁN! International Brigade Memorial Trust l 3-2019 l £5 Bob Doyle and the Connolly Column INTERNATIONAL BRIGADE MEMORIAL TRUST Original British Battalion banners on display at the Marx Memorial Library, venue for this year’s IBMT Annual General Meeting. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING and weekend of events and activities in London The IBMT’s Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 5 October 2019 in the Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU as part of a weekend programme of commemorative, educational and social events. All members are warmly invited to attend and take part. Provisional programme summer of 1938; free; in the Marx Memorial Library. will be held among members attending the AGM. l From 6pm: Informal social and buffet upstairs at Four vacancies arise because Megan Dobney, Friday 4 October the Three Kings, 7 Clerkenwell Close, London EC1R Christopher Hall, Charles Jepson, Jim Jump and l 6.45pm: Draw for the IBMT’s No Pasarán Raffle; in 0DY; with open mic; £10 payable on the door. Manuel Moreno will have completed their terms of the Marx Memorial Library. office at the AGM. They must therefore step down l 7pm-8pm: Exclusive screening of video footage Sunday 6 October and an election, in which they are permitted to stand, of the Arcola Theatre’s acclaimed production of the l 11am-1pm: Spanish Civil War history tour of the along with other IBMT members, will take place. The musical ‘Goodbye Barcelona’ about the East End led by historian and guide David four elected members will serve for three years. International Brigades; introduced by its co-writer Rosenberg; meet at entrance to Shadwell DLR In addition, Mary Greening has announced that Karl Lewkowicz; free; in the Marx Memorial Library. station and finish at Whitechapel tube station; she will be retiring from the Executive Committee at £8 payable on the day; booking essential: the AGM, one year before her term of office expires. Saturday 5 October [email protected] She will be replaced by the candidate receiving the l 11am-12.30pm: Talks by Richard Baxell (author of fifth highest number of votes in the ballot. This ‘Unlikely Warriors: The Extraordinary Story of the AGM agenda person will serve for one year. Britons who Fought In the Spanish Civil War’) about (1) Chair’s opening remarks the International Brigade volunteers from London (2) Apologies for absence All IBMT members may nominate fellow and by David Rosenberg (author of ‘Rebel Footprints: (3) Approval of minutes of the 2018 AGM and members to serve on the Executive Committee. A Guide to Uncovering London’s Radical History’ and matters arising Nominations must be made in writing and co-editor of Jewish Socialist) about the Jewish (4) Executive Committee’s report received by the Secretary (see below) by 8am on volunteers from Britain; chaired by Meirian Jump, (5) Financial report 16 September 2019. The names of candidates Marx Memorial Library Archivist & Library Manager; (6) Election of Executive Committee members for election will be published on the IBMT free; in the Marx Memorial Library. (7) Any other business website in advance of the AGM. Proposed items l 2pm-4pm: The IBMT’s AGM in the Marx Memorial (8) Date and place of next AGM for agenda item (7) must be received in writing Library (see agenda and notice of elections below). (9) Chair’s closing remarks by the Secretary by 8am on 28 September 2019. l 4.30pm-5.30pm: Screening of ‘Voices from a Send nominations and proposed agenda items Mountain’ (David Leach, 2001), about British Notice of elections and AGM agenda items by email (these will be acknowledged) to: volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and the Nominations are invited for candidates to fill five [email protected] or by re-discovery of a memorial to members of the vacancies on the Executive Committee. Should five post to: IBMT Secretary, 37a Clerkenwell Green, 15th Brigade killed at the Battle of the Ebro in the or more IBMT members accept nomination, a ballot London EC1R 0DU. www.international-brigades.org.uk ¡NO PASARÁN! Magazine of the International Brigade Memorial Trust No.52 l 3-2019 RNA IONALE TE S IN D E S L O A I L R I A B T E N R U T L 1936 1939 A D O V ¡NO PASARÁN! International Brigade Memorial Trust l 3-2019 l £5 t See page 5 for news of a memorial plaque in Dublin for Bob Doyle and page 12 for an appreciation of s The Clapton CFC flag flies over the campsite of July’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival in Dorset and (right) the Connolly members of the newly formed women’s team squad display the club’s colours, including the famous shirt in Column of Irish tribute to the International Brigades and Spanish Republic. Bob Doyle and the Connolly Column Photo: Richard Baxell Photo: Richard volunteers. 3 News Clapton CFC and IBMT team up for a l Memorials in Aberdeen, Crewe and Spain memorial to the Newham volunteers 6 Annual commemoration l Words and images from London’s Southbank he east London community football club that last year produced a best-selling shirt 8 Profile dedicated to the International Brigades is l T Charlie Hutchison: black volunteer backing moves to erect a memorial to the local volunteers who went to Spain. 10 Editor’s Notes Clapton Community Football Club is working l Including an Arab’s encounter with the Moors closely with the IBMT on the project, which would see a free-standing memorial in West Ham 16 Marlene Sidaway writes Park or at some other suitable site in Newham. West Ham Park: potential site. l Help secure the IBMT’s future At the member-owned club’s annual general meeting on 22 June it was agreed to allocate IBMT President Marlene Sidaway is liaising 17 Crimes of fascism £4,000 for a memorial stone or sculpture to the with the club on the memorial project and has l Anniversary reminder from Mauthausen dozen individuals from the area who served in the been involved in the talks with the City of London International Brigades. authorities. Her late partner and International 18 Poster art The City of London, which owns West Ham Brigader, David Marshall (1916-2005), lived in l Archives preserved and digitised Park, is willing to give approval subject to certain Newham, close to West Ham Park, where there is guarantees about maintenance. a memorial bench for him. 19 Books & the arts Also agreed unanimously at the Clapton CFC She said: ‘This is a very exciting development l Including secret agent ‘Sonya’ and the AGM was a proposal to produce a banner naming and we’re delighted that Clapton CFC wants to International Brigades the volunteers from Newham. honour the local anti-fascists who fought in Spain.’ 22 Final word l Tommy Moore: a memorial ‘discovered’ Photos now being added to online biographical list of Brigaders ¡No Pasarán! (formerly the IBMT Magazine and the IBMT Newsletter) is published three times a year. he IBMT’s online database of nearly 2,400 International Back numbers can be downloaded from the IBMT Brigaders from Britain and Ireland can now also include photos website. All content is the © of the IBMT and Tof individual volunteers (for example, Jack Jones, left). credited contributors and cannot be reproduced Accessed via the IBMT website, the searchable list contains basic without written permission. Views expressed are information about each individual, such as name, birthplace and, in not necessarily those of the IBMT. the case of more than 500 of them, location of death in Spain. Photos will gradually be added to these entries, and the IBMT is Editor Jim Jump urging family members and friends to submit photos for inclusion in the IBMT, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU database. They should be emailed to: admin@international-brigades. 020 7253 8748 org.uk or sent to: IBMT, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London EC1R 0DU. [email protected] The list of volunteers is the result of many years of work by IBMT archivist Jim Carmody, who died in 2016, and historian Richard Baxell, International Brigade Memorial Trust who was the IBMT Chair until October last year. The database can be www.international-brigades.org.uk accessed at www.international-brigades.org.uk/the-volunteers. ¡NO PASARÁN! 3 RNA IONALE TE S NEWS IN D E S L O A I L R Scrapbook remembers the Basque children I A B T E efugee Week on 17-23 June was marked N R U T by the Marx Memorial Library with the L 1936 1939 A D launch of an online exhibition, ‘A O V R Scrapbook Tells a Story’, about a group of child refugees who found safety in Britain during the Spanish Civil War. Funded by Islington Council, the digital exhibition contains more than 200 photographs and 70 press cuttings taken from a scrapbook The International kept by volunteers looking after the children at one of their homes in Worthing, Sussex. Brigade Memorial Trust Archivist & Library Manager Meirian Jump FLAGS: The annual reunion lunch of the keeps alive the memory said the online presentation showed how British surviving Basque refugee children took place on people were mobilised to care for the children. 19 May at London’s Melia Whitehouse Hotel. The and spirit of the men She added: ‘The bombing of Basque towns event, which dates back to the 1940s, is always and women who prompted a public outcry, which persuaded a held at the weekend closest to 23 May, the day reluctant UK government to allow the children they arrived in Southampton in 1937.
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