spanish civil war
johno | 13.10.2010 18:03 | Workers' Movements | Liverpool
a memorial to honour the volunteers who fought in spain in the antifascist struggle wil be held in liverpool from the 15th to the17th of october the event will be held in a couple of venues but saturday at the old tand g office lime street.
on saturday all day at jack jones house old transport and general workers union at the end of lime street.
is to host the international brigades memorial event. the opportunity to meet some of the last surviving veterans from the anti fascist struggle in spain. also look out for events at the casa music from barcelona and german surviving volunteers are expected too.
the whole event will be celebrating the memory of the volunteers and rededicating the plaque to fallen comrades. those who have read up on the history will be aware that new and more interesting material is coming to light from thr archives in bothe the fsb russia and the spanish police and cp too.
with this in mind an event on every good international socialist calendar.
70 years on from the world war two
here were the brave people out to prevent it from happening for four or five years fighting on the soil of spain in defence of the revolutionary spanish people against three fascists franco hitler and mussolinis troops while western democracies looked on but silently supported the defence of private property against the reds and uncle stalin did his utmost to silence the critics of democracy in pursuit of apact with the friendly western capitalist democracies of france and great britain.
come along
johno
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