International Brigades
I’ve always had huge admiration for the International Brigade volunteers – 2,500 of which were from the UK – who left their comfortable lives behind to go to Spain and fight against Franco during the Spanish Civil War. It’s lovely to see the few that are still alive were honoured yesterday by the Spanish government who have granted them Spanish passports at the Spanish embassy in London. Why it’s taken 70 years for such a gesture I’m not sure but it’s probably down to the same old political wranglings about whether to “dig up the past”.
We could learn a lot from these brave men who, as one of them says, “didn’t care about politics”. Rather they were motivated simply by fighting for a good cause.
More on the story can be found here.
[...] would surely have been delighted by the Spanish Government’s recent decision to award citizenship to those remaining few that like Orwell, fought in the International [...]