EVENT: The International Brigade Memorial Trust

The International Brigade Memorial Trust will be holding an event at Manchester Town Hall on Saturday 16 July 11am-12.30pm to mark the 75th anniversary of volunteers going to support the Spanish Republic 1936-1939. This will be in the sculpture hall where there is a memorial to the volunteers from Greater Manchester who served both as soldiers and nurses during the war.

At 2pm there will a radical history walk to sites in and around Albert Square connected with the trade union and labour movement. This will last 1 hour approximately and will be lead by Michael Herbert (Red Flag Walks). The walk is free.

The International Brigade Memorial Trust was formed in 2002 . Its aims are:

"To educate the public in the history of the men and women who fought in the International Brigades and in the medical and other support services in the Spanish Civil War. In particular, by preserving and cataloguing valuable historical material relating hereto and by making such material available to the public."

"To foster good citizenship by remembering those who have fallen in the Spanish Civil War by preserving, maintaining and assisting in the construction of war memorials.

For more information about the event, please contact Hilary Jones on 0161-224-1747 or Dolores Long on 0161-226-2013