In Spain with Orwell
May 15th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Features, FrontpageBARRY WINTER reviews Chris Hall’s latest book on the ILP and the Spanish Civil War.
Posts Tagged ‘ Internationalism ’
Two Hundred Brigaders Pay Homage to Orwell
Mar 9th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Frontpage, NewsOver 200 people assembled at the Manchester Conference Centre on Saturday 2 March to take part in the annual IBMT (International Brigade Memorial Trust) Len Crome Lecture. The title of the day’s conference was ‘Homage to Catalonia 75 years on’.
Orwell to be honoured by International Brigades
Feb 27th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, FrontpageThe International Brigades Memorial Trust is holding a special event in Manchester on 2 March to mark the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia.
Abuse is No Solution
Feb 5th, 2013 | By Jeannine Sudworth | Category: Articles, Comment, FrontpageI would like to draw your attention to a letter in the Independent on Sunday on 3 February about the Gerald Scarfe cartoon published in the Sunday Times the previous weekend.
Homage to Catalonia on Radio4
Jan 28th, 2013 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, FrontpageHomage to Catalonia, George Orwell’s book about his experiences as an ILP volunteer at the Spanish Civil War, has been dramatised on Radio 4 over the last few weeks.
A Remarkable History
Nov 6th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, FrontpageBARRY WINTER reviews a new history of Namibia, where the struggle for social justice continues.
An appeal from the Marikana Support Campaign
Nov 6th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Frontpage, LeadOn the 16 August, South African Police fired live ammunition at striking miners at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, killing 34 and injuring 78. Many were shot at close range while trying to surrender. The Marikana miners were demanding a tripling of their salary to R12,500 (£950 or €1100) per month.
In the following days, 270 of the Marikana strikers were arrested and charged with the murder of their colleagues under the Common Purpose doctrine, a law last used under Apartheid.
A digital record of the Spanish Civil War
May 28th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Frontpage, NewsThe Modern Records Centre at the University of Warwick has completed its project to digitise more than 13,000 pages of archives relating to the Spanish Civil War.
Benefit for the Brigade
May 18th, 2012 | By Matthew Brown | Category: Articles, Events, FrontpageThe International Brigade Memorial Trust are holding a benefit night at Chorlton Irish Club in Chorlton-cum-Hardy on Friday 18 May. The acts include Les Jones and Friends of the Beech, The Madonnnas, and the Bourbon Street Preachers.
Stop Kony, stop thinking?
Mar 14th, 2012 | By willb | Category: Articles, Frontpage, LeadIn the past week, the ‘Stop Kony’ campaign, aimed at the arrest of African ‘warlord’ Joseph Kony, leader of the Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army, has become an unlikely internet phenomenon. There is an undoubted justice to the campaign to the extent that, as the LRA leader, Kony is responsible for crimes against humanity stretching back many years. He ought to face justice, whether in Uganda or in the International Criminal Court.
However, argues WILL BROWN, the Kony campaign simplifies to the point of misrepresentation the complex political problems that underlie such conflicts.
A short, moving account of the Spanish Civil War. Focusing on events in Catalonia, it shows how even today, there is more to be remembered than the courage of the International Brigade.
A lively, frank and well-illustrated account of the ILP’s history from its origins in the 1890s, the Labour party’s development, and the rise and fall of the Labour left.