Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
TRADE unionists and International Brigade supporters will gather in Manchester this Sunday to remember one of the greatest speeches of modern times.
It was delivered on October 28 1938 — exactly 80 years ago — by Dolores Ibarruri, better know as La Pasionaria.
The occasion was the farewell parade of the International Brigades through central Barcelona as the Spanish civil war was drawing to its tragic end.
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary



