¡No Pasaran!: Writings from the Spanish Civil War

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Despite volunteering to fight for a cause that he passionately believed in, it’s clear he still felt many of the normal complaints soldiers felt about war – shortages of essentials; hoping for luxuries such as chocolate; and boredom during gaps between activity, hence the eager requests for reading material. Demonstrators flee police during a protest in Cable Street, east London, against a proposed fascist march.

The interviews were done in connection with an exhibition at Side Gallery of photographs from the Spanish Civil War; the interviewer is Sue Todd, who was a member of the gallery team. 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.The final victory of the military rebellion imposed 36 years of fascist dictatorship on the country, which only ended after the death of Franco in 1975. We sometimes make mistakes in our spelling, transcription or categorisation, or miss information out of our records. Drawing on many of the leading voices at the cutting edge of antifascist theory and scholarship, ¡No Pasarán!

At home they were the most militant opponent of Mosley’s blackshirts, and had strong representation among steelworkers, miners, and unemployed workers in Lanarkshire. They shall not pass" ( French: Ils ne passeront pas; Romanian: Pe aici nu se trece; Spanish: No pasarán; Serbo-Croatian: ne smiju peniš) is a slogan, most notably used by France in World War I, to express a determination to defend a position against an enemy. He addresses it from an office of Soccoro Rojo International – the Spanish wing of ‘International Red Aid’, an organisation founded as a communist alternative to the Red Cross. Evidently there were shortages – “the boys are just talking about how long it is since they bought a bar [of soap] ”.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. The way the story is told may seem a bit selfish, but it opens a reflexion on memory and forgetting.