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——————————<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n In August 1936\u00a0Harry Pollitt<\/a> arranged forTom Wintringham<\/a> to go to\u00a0Spain<\/a> to represent the CPGB during the\u00a0Civil War<\/a>.\u00a0While in\u00a0Barcelona<\/a> he\u00a0developed the idea of a volunteer international legion to fight on the side of theRepublican Army<\/a>. He wrote: “You have to treat the building of an army as a political problem, a question of propaganda, of ideas soaking in.”<\/p>\n On 10th September 1936 Wintringham wrote to\u00a0Harry Pollitt<\/a> that he had arranged for\u00a0Nat Cohen<\/a>, a Jewish clothing worker from\u00a0Stepney<\/a>, to establish “a Tom Mann centuria which will include 10 or 12 English and can accommodate as many likely lads as you can send out… I believe that full political value can only be got from it (and that’s a lot) if its English contingent becomes stronger. 50 is not too many.”<\/p>\n Maurice Thorez<\/a>, theFrench Communist Party<\/a> leader, also had the idea of an international force of volunteers to fight for the Republic.\u00a0Joseph Stalin<\/a>agreed and in September 1936 theComintern<\/a> began organising the formation of International Brigades. An internatinal recruiting centre was set up in Paris and a training base at\u00a0Albacete<\/a> in\u00a0Spain<\/a>.<\/p>\n Battali<\/a>ons estblished included the\u00a0Abraham Lincoln Battalion<\/a>,\u00a0British Battalion<\/a>,\u00a0Connolly Column<\/a>,\u00a0Dajakovich Battalion<\/a>,\u00a0Dim<\/a>itrov Battalion<\/a>,\u00a0Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion<\/a>,\u00a0George Washington Battalion<\/a>,\u00a0Mickiewicz Battalion<\/a> and\u00a0Thaelmann B<\/a>attalion<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A total of 59,380 volunteers from fifty-five countries served during the\u00a0Spanish Civil War<\/a>. This included the following: French (10,000), German (5,000), Polish (5,000), Italian (3,350), American (2,800), British (2,000), Canadian (1,000), Yugoslavian (1,500), Czech (1,500), Canadian (1,000), Hungarian (1,000) and Scandinavian (1,000). These men were organized into the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th of the Mixed Brigades.<\/p>\n Men who fought with the Republican Army<\/a><\/span> included George Orwell<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, <\/span>Andr\u00e9 Marty<\/a><\/span>, Christopher Caudwell<\/a><\/span>, Jack Jones<\/a>, Len Crome<\/a>, Oliver Law<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Tom Winteringham<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Joe Garber<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, Lou Kenton<\/a><\/span><\/span>, Bill Alexander<\/a>, David Marshall<\/a><\/span>, Alfred Sherman<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, William Aalto<\/a>, Hans Amlie<\/a><\/span>, Bill Bailey<\/a>, Robert Merriman<\/a>, Fred Copeman<\/a><\/span>, <\/span>Tom Murray<\/a><\/span>, Steve Nelson<\/a><\/span><\/span>,
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