Offices, classrooms and public spaces will fall silent today as Britain pauses to mark the 95th anniversary of the end of World War I.
Sixteen million people had lost their lives and 20 million more were wounded when the guns finally fell silent across a devastated Europe on November 11 1918.
Britain will unite at 11am to remember the war between vying empires.
TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote
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
LYNNE WALSH tells the story of the extraordinary race against time to ensure London’s memorial to the International Brigades got built – as activists gather next week to celebrate the monument’s 40th anniversary



