¡No Pasaran!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War

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We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Young people, old people, all shouting 'No Pasaran' and 'One two three four five - we want Mosley, dead or alive'," he said.

Suddenly, the horses' hooves were flying and the horses were falling down because the young kids were throwing marbles. We tell stories that are neglected in the mainstream, investigate and challenge local power structures and explore important issues, from the everyday to the earth-shattering. Most importantly, these essays don't just highlight the social problems; they empower the reader to step up with their local community to solve them. we could see a big army of Blackshirts marching towards the confluence of Commercial Road and Whitechapel Road.

CW: Officially the Labour movement was supporting the policy of non-intervention which in general produced a split. In the two days prior to the march the Jewish People’s Council collected an impressive 100,000 signatures to protest ‘grave concern’. The Spanish Civil War is a period that is not so well covered as others in historical miniatures, and even less in busts! Years of international tension and aggressive expansion by Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany culminated in the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. Suddenly a barricade was erected there and they put an old lorry in the middle of the road and old mattresses.

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.Cable Street, though, also raises questions about the nature of cultural and collective memory and the role archives and documentary evidence play in maintaining or challenging that memory. He was a away from Britain on a long voyage we heard through the ordinary press about the mutiny on the Linaria in Port. These Brigades were really a hodgepodge of different nationalities – while there was, eventually, a British Battalion, this included those from Britain, Ireland and British dominions. 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. JW3 are running a Cable Street Festival, the HOPE not hate Charitable Trust are launching a new online resource ( www.