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We must memorialise more of the important events of the workers' movement with real-world events, writes TAM KIRBY, as a new miners’ gala in Fife takes shape
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ON Saturday, Fife Trades council held its annual International Brigade memorial event to remember the working-class people who went to Spain to fight fascism.
I smiled the whole day, not just because the turnout exceeded expectations but also because of the number of people there who I met for the first time. We were also so privileged to have Tam Watters, co-author of Our Fathers Fought Franco, speak at our reception after the memorial and the grandson of Tommy Bloomfield, who went to Spain not once, but twice.
Trades councils all over Britain hold similar events — May Day, International Women’s Day, Workers’ Memorial Day and International Brigade events. It is crucial we continue these events.
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