MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
Latest editorial
‘By fighting against fascism I shall be helping preserve peace throughout Europe’
David Guest (left) meets Harry Pollitt, general secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain, in Spain - Guest was killed by a sniper on July 28 1938 during the Battle of the Ebro
[Marx Memorial Library archives]
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
ALEX HALL welcomes an analysis of how modern capitalism is deeply intertwined with emotions, and their manipulation
MARTIN GRAHAM welcomes a statistical analysis of how much tax the super-rich pay, and foresees that the demand will flush out their agents
RICHARD WORTH relishes the fleeting moment and sense of flow of the late, great saxophonist
DENNIS BROE notes the thin, unfunny and apolitical quality of the gruel dished up by the US networks and studios for mass consumption
BARBARA BOSWELL remembers South African poet, storyteller, publisher, editor and activist Diana Ferrus (1953-2026)
Hampshire Heroes: Volunteer Fighters in the Spanish Civil War
by Alan Lloyd
Clapton Press £11
AUTHOR Alan Lloyd’s dedicated research over many years tells the stories of some 40 volunteers from his home county in Hampshire Heroes: Volunteer Fighters in the Spanish Civil War.
Lloyd’s research is impressive for its breadth and depth, contacting over 100 relatives, friends, librarians, and archivists across the world’ as well as the major sources at Marx Memorial Library, the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History and the Tamiment Library in New York.
Keeping the narrative of the Spanish civil war to a minimum, Lloyd ties in the accounts of each volunteer’s life and contribution with the chronological progression of the war.
Similar stories
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
CJ ATKINS commemorates one of the most dramatic moments in working-class history
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 reports from last weekend’s moving remembrance of the International Brigades in London’s Jubilee Gardens where anti-fascists gathered to hear how even in the darkest of times we can build a vision of a better tomorrow, as the Brigaders fought to do 89 years ago