La Pasionaria's speech to the International Brigades read by Yolanda Vazquez

On 28th October 1938 the International Brigades assembled in Barcelona where they were given an enormous and emotional farewell by the Republican government and the people of the city. Speaking from a balcony, Dolores Ibárruri, known as 'La Pasionaria', gave what has become an iconic, speech, immortalising the words "You are history, You are legend"; though many of her phrases still ring true for the situation today. At the IBMT Annual Commemoration for the Brigaders in Jubilee Gardens on London's South Bank the Anglo-Spanish actor Yolanda Vázquez gave this reading of the speech to an enthused crowd. Yolanda reads the first paragraph in Spanish before reading the whole speech in English. ¡No pasarán!
Yolanda’s version of the speech - in Spanish and English - was recorded at the IBMT’s annual commemoration on London’s Southbank on 7 July.
Yolanda Vázquez played La Pasionaria on stage in 1986 at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre’s production of ‘The Running of the Bulls’. Her screen credits include the film ‘Notting Hill’, about that part of London where she was brought up in the large Spanish immigrant community there, and she has acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company and performed, among many other places, at the National and Globe Theatres. Last year she was a narrator in a special programme on BBC Radio 3 reading extracts of writings from the Spanish Civil War.
Keeping the memory alive - visit www.international-brigades.org.uk

[@Herman47]

¡No pasarán!

[@CBM1979]

Descansa en ,compañera...Viva la República!!!

[@IBMTnews]

Viva!

[@ROUTEPLANNERPAUL]

What a great speech

[@petercassie151]

Would we do this today ? What a speech what a time no pasarane touches me like no other just an ordinary working class guy who s proud that 100 years ago our forefathers would die for their beliefs shame on us