Events

 Novelist David Ebsworth on ‘Five Things You (Almost Certainly) Didn't Know about the Spanish Civil War’; 2pm at the Working Class Movement Library, 51 The Crescent, Salford, Manchester, M5 4WX.
www.davidebsworth.com

FIBI Annual Battle of Ebro walk. 2018 
Departing at 4pm from the Granvue Hotel, Omeath, Co. Louth and walking along its traditional route to the Memorial carn on Slieve Foy. Here the local Brigaders who fought and died in Spain 36/39 will be remembered. FIBI will also pay homage, on this the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Ebro, to all those who died there in Defence of Freedom. Returning to the hotel for 7pm for an evening of music and song . Bring your flags and colours. Bring your voice if you can sing or recite poetry. Bring your musical instrument if you wish to play.

 Unveiling of an IBMT plaque in the municipal cemetery of El Perelló, near Tarragona, to mark the remains of two British Battalion members, John Ferguson and James Scott, in a mass grave where the bodies of many Spanish Republicans are also buried. The unveiling coincides with the 80th anniversary of the final action of the British Battalion in the Battle of the Ebro.

‘Anti-Fascist Footprints’ guided walk of the East End led by historian and activist David Rosenberg, taking in Cable Street and other sites associated with many of the volunteers who went to Spain from this part of London; 2.30pm-5pm.
www.eastendwalks.com