¡No Pasaran!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War

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The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) provided the bulk of the 2,500 British volunteers for Spain, with the International Brigades being organised by the Soviet-based Communist International. Nicaragua no pasarán is also the title of a 1984 documentary by David Bradbury about the events in Nicaragua that led to the overthrow of Somoza's dictatorship.An impressive anthology that bears an extraordinary cargo of human experience, and is an enlightenment for those who think only of the western front when they remember the First World War. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. But most of the places such as North Shields, South Shields, Wallsend and in mining villages that had quite large meetings. Their nature implied that sooner or later they were going to clash and Spain was one of the first scenarios where that happened, in a devastating conflict that served as a prelude to the Second World War. Stones and insults were hurled, and Irish immigrant dockers who lived on the street joined in to halt the march.

They indicate attempts to ban the fascist demonstration, advice from left wing and Jewish groups encouraging counter-demonstrators to stay away, and a spike in support for the BUF in East London in the immediate aftermath of Cable Street. The Battle of Cable Street signifies an important point in inter-war British history, when far right political extremism was confronted on the streets of East London and turned away. Perhaps Demissie and Iglikowski should have noted Sir Phillip Game’s words (at page 10 of his report reproduced above) ‘there were many cries of “Shame” when it was learned that the march and meetings had been banned’.CW: People went to fight, people were particularly conscious of what was involved in the fight against facism. Jack Jones was born in Liverpool and became a docker in the 1930s; he was a socialist and Trade Unionist (a member of the Transport and General Workers Union), and an active anti-fascist, organising protests against British Union of Fascist meetings being held in Liverpool. Find your next must-read with the Serpent’s Tail newsletter and discover gripping crime and mystery from Viper Books. Two interviews filmed in 1987, one with Charlie Woods, an activist on Tyneside who had supported the volunteers who went to fight in the Spanish Civil War, the other with John Henderson and Frank Graham, who were both veterans of the Spanish Civil War. we could see a big army of Blackshirts marching towards the confluence of Commercial Road and Whitechapel Road.

For them, fighting in Spain was about stopping that advance, which is seen in many of the popular phrases surrounding the Spanish Civil War: ‘no pasarán’; ’this far and no further’; and, the very famous, ‘if you tolerate this, then your children will be next’. Perhaps fittingly, it's also the anniversary of one of the most inspiring Radical History stories I know. CW: Officially the Labour movement was supporting the policy of non-intervention which in general produced a split. From the history of antifascism to today's movement to identify, deplatform, and confront the right, and the ways an insurgent fascism is growing within capitalist democracies, a myriad of voices come together to shape the new face of antifascism in a moment of social and political flux. Midnight one Friday in January 1937 found me and four more Yorkshire comrades boarding a train at Sheffield bound for London on the first leg of our journey to Spain.The Spanish Civil War collection at WCML contains books, pamphlets, artefacts and tape recordings, and the archival material includes an impressive archive of letters written by men from the Greater Manchester area who went to fight in Spain. Glasgow Libraries holds the Ethel MacDonald collection, around 5000 objects relating to her life and work in Spain. This compendium of stories and analyses from the frontlines of antifascism will help us meet the daunting demands of our era with clarity, bravery, and camaraderie in the struggle. Registered office: WSM Services Limited, Connect House, 133-137 Alexandra Road, Wimbledon, LONDON SW19 7JY. Shamefully, the USSR had been the only major power to give any real support to Spain during Franco's coup).