¡No Pasaran!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War

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Brutal beatings were meted out to protestors at a meeting at Olympia in June 1934, and street attacks on communists and Jewish people increased in regularity and continued through until 1936.

So, as with Jones, there was a socialist background to his involvement in the Spanish Civil War and, again, he got involved very early on. Following the march and the violence of Cable Street, politicians and officials looked at ways to reduce the likelihood of such events being repeated. 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. Read all As a child, the filmmaker had found with his grandparents an incomplete series of postcards photographed in his family's village at the end of the Spanish Civil War in 1939. His work has been featured in places such as NBC News, Al Jazeera, The Baffler, The Independent, Jacobin, The Daily Beast, Bandcamp Daily, Jewish Currents, Haaretz, and Full Stop.Whilst the political left had grown in support across Europe during the interwar years, so too had another force on the far-right: fascism. People as people must get together and stop racism and anti-Semitism so people can lead an ordinary life and develop their own ideas and religions. The BUF intended to parade through areas with significant Jewish populations but were halted by a coalition of working men and women, Jewish people, dockers and immigrants.

ST: Those sentiments were reflected in a growth of a campaign in the NE in support of Republican Spain can you describe how that was started? We sometimes make mistakes in our spelling, transcription or categorisation, or miss information out of our records. Material on the Spanish Civil War, much of it archival, forms one of the most extensive and interesting collections in Salford’s Working Class Movement Library (WCML). These systems, and often the routes volunteers were sent along, were then reused during the war by resistance groups. What all of these different responses really show is how complicated the political landscape was at the time – the tension between the far-right and the far-left was building and people often had very polarised views about what should be done.We also have some absolutely magnificent posters discovered in our collection that are hand-drawn, encouraging support for the Republican cause – we think by a member of the Communist Party.

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. Use on personal social media accounts, provided the individuals are not promoting themselves commercially. 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 form will be sent to our Collections Management Team who will use it to improve our object records. Children rolled marbles to fell police horses, and stones and insults were thrown towards police lines, which were trying to keep the two sides separated.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. Annual commemorations are organised by the local No Pasaran Memorial Committee – taking their name from the Spanish for ‘they shall not pass’, a phrase made famous by the war. 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. It’s a reminder that as long as racism, bigotry and oppression exist, the war fought by those in Spain is one that we must still fight today.

Previous collections privileged the writings of the International Brigades over those of the Spanish, sometimes excluding them altogether. Even if it succeeded in many places, it failed in most of the major cities like Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao, Málaga, and Valencia along other big areas. This fed into left wing concerns that the fascists would influence existing structures of the state, such as the police, to instigate political change.

The BUF did not dissent from this ruling, reiterating their ‘desire at all times to conform with the law of the land’ (MEPO 3/2153). Poignant stories from real people - and brilliant insight into a war that should never have happened.