North Wales International Brigader Tom Jones, also known as Twm Sbaen (Tom Spain), will be honoured at a ceremony at the Cymru Cuba stand at the National Eisteddfod at Wrexham at 3:30pm on 4 August. Twm was a miner for 14 years and served in the British Anti-Tank Battery in Spain. In later years...
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On the Norwegian island of Utoya, scene of that horrific massacre of young members of the Labor Party by a right-wing Christian terrorist, there is a plaque, tacked on to a tree, honoring the four Norwegian members of the International Brigades who were killed in the Spanish Civil War.  Apparently, the young campers had...
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Dan Carrier remembers the 75th anniversary of the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War with a portrait of his great-uncle Nat Cohen, IBer from the UK, and some of his buddies:

A garment worker from the East End, he had already seen political street-fighting, was a regular draw at Communist Party meetings...
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Justice, Spanish Style According to today's issue of Público: 1. Judge Baltasar Garzón initiates an investigation into the forced disappearance and/or assasination of 113,000 Spaniards by Francoist forces. 2. Judge Baltasar Garzón is accused of judicial malfeasance (prevaricación) for having initiated that investigation, and is suspended from his post as a Judge. 3. An Argentine judge, invoking...
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Veteran Olavi Kantola was killed in Spain when he was in his very early twenties. His nephew Bob got in contact with ALBA when he found out that his Uncle was a member of the Lincoln Brigade
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Over the years, I’ve had a chance to help a significant number of high school and college students and teachers wade into the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives.  Visitors are almost always taken by the immediacy of the primary sources contained in ALBA.  For folks used to the apparent omniscience and neutrality of history textbooks,...
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Dublin: Friday 15 July A public meeting, “75 years on – the International Brigades and the Spanish Civil War”, will be held at 7pm in the Teachers Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1. The meeting is organised by éirígí to mark the 75th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War and to...
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On 25 June 2011, Manus O'Riordan (Ireland Secretary of the International Brigade Memorial Trust) gave the following address during the Fourth Annual George Brown Commemoration at Woodstock Gardens, Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny, where  an olive grove was rededicated in memory of four Kilkenny International Brigade volunteers.  Read the speech here (pdf).
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Around 100 people including Italians, British, Americans and Australians commemorated the 74th anniversary of the battle of Brunete with a walk across the roads that were used by the Republican army to approach to the Brunete battlefield.  The Italian contingent posted a video.
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A commemorative concert to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Spanish Civil War, "The Song of Songs," will be performed at Bridewell Hall, London EC4Y 8EQ, featuring Caroline Barnes (violin), Miguel Calvo (cello), Michael Chant (piano), Tom Chant (saxophone), Robert Coleridge (piano), Philip Edwards (clarinet), Alys Hewer (flute), Lesley Larkum (viola), and Catherine Pluygers (oboe)....
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