¡No Pasaran!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War

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We are deluged with books, each bearing its own definitions, prognoses, caveats, and warnings, only to be bumped off the bestseller list by the next self-proclaimed fascism expert. The British Government decided on a policy of non-intervention, which meant that not only would they not send their military to help, but they also wouldn’t provide financial aid or arms to the Republican government. I used to get word of people that had been killed and I had the job of conveying it to the nearest relatives. The government, especially, wanted to avoid another all-out war in Europe, and many people, especially those who had lived through the war, approved of appeasement and non-intervention as a way to avoid another conflict. The most common charges were insulting words and behaviour and obstructing police, with very few charged with the more serious charges of grievous bodily harm and wilful damage.

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’. Born into the poverty of the Basque working class in 1895, she joined the Spanish Communist Party almost as soon as it was created in 1920.They certainly had politics and Airdrie in common, but we don’t know for certain if they shared a family connection too. Despite the iconic status of these demonstrations as a triumph over fascism, in the wake of Cable Street the BUF’s membership increased. If you have concerns about the language in this record, or you have information to improve it, please share your feedback. 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.

Suddenly a barricade was erected there and they put an old lorry in the middle of the road and old mattresses. Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis is a much-needed collection of essays from some of the most notable anti-fascists writing today. CW: Officially the Labour movement was supporting the policy of non-intervention which in general produced a split. In the week leading up to it a deputation of East End mayors applied pressure on the Home Secretary Sir John Simon to ban it, with the Mayor of Stepney claiming that a march ‘…in this large Jewish populated area cannot but be provocative of disturbance and possible riot and danger to persons and property’ (HO 144/21060). Find your next must-read with the Serpent’s Tail newsletter and discover gripping crime and mystery from Viper Books.He volunteered to fight in Spain in 1936, right at the start of the war, bringing quite a lot of experience from his previous two years in the Territorial Army. The letter also suggests he had been in Canada at one time – it’s unknown for how long – and that in Spain he had bumped into the brother of “Jim M-“, someone they knew in Airdrie. The phrase was brought to the public consciousness again following action in December 1943 by French-Canadian officer Paul Triquet of the Royal 22 e Regiment; his action included his use of Nivelle's phrase "to win a key objective at Ortona, Italy, in the face of overwhelming German opposition. The chief of police decided that if the march had taken place there would be death on the road - and there would have been," he said. Our bust offers insight into the first year of the war, where these idealistic movements had created an innovative social-political experiment in cities like Barcelona.

Women threw the contents of chamber pots on to the heads of policemen and children hurled marbles under their horses and burst bags of pepper in front of their noses. Equal parts handbook, history and theory, it is both an excellent overview of militant struggles against fascism and a powerful weapon for the fights to come. The petition ultimately asked the Home Secretary to prohibit such marches, for the sake of uniting the community.The latter were well organised and through a mole learned that the chief of police had told Mosley that his passage into the East End could be made through Cable Street.

A confidential report on BUF matters notes that by 27 October membership had increased by a little over 2,000, with these predominately noted in East End branches. skewers the popular one-dimensional interpretation of antifascism to reveal how our struggle must challenge all forms of oppression if we are to ever truly build a world free from fascism. Others from the left but not supportive of the CPGB – such as the famed ‘Scots Scarlet Pimpernel’, Bellshill anarchist Ethel MacDonald – travelled to Spain to support the fight in other ways. Years of international tension and aggressive expansion by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany culminated in the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.The Frente Popular government (Popular Front, a coalition of left-wing parties) had been elected in January 1936. Drawing on many of the leading voices at the cutting edge of antifascist theory and scholarship, ¡No Pasarán! Our women's v-neck t-shirts are a longer, looser fit than our standard round-neck women's, and are 100% cotton. they shall not pass’), borrowed from Spanish Republicans – had overturned a brick-laden truck to create a barricade. The blackshirts were formed up at Tower Hill and when the police were unable to clear the intended routes through the east end the fascists marched westwards to Temple.