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A memorial to the International Brigade.
It reads:
"To the honour and memory of the Leicester members of the International Brigade who died fighting fascism in Spain 1936 - 1939
Fred Sykes - Jarama 1937
Jack Watson - Jarama 1937
Roy Watts - Ebro 1938
Spain
No Pasaran!"
No Pasaran was (and is) a rallying call for anti-fascists and is taken in this context from Dolores Ibárruri Gómez's speach during the siege of Madrid during the war. It literally means none shall pass and was taken from a French general's speech during the battle of Verdun in WW1.
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