Wales and the Spanish Civil War
There were many reasons for the men of south Wales joining the Spanish
civil war most of which can be divided up in to the following
categories; Political, Economic, Social, Cultural and Religious. The
most important of which I feel is Political as I think you can find
that all these other problems stemmed from the political reasons. It
was these political reasons that had the most impact on the miners and
ultimately more than any of the others encouraged them to actively
join the war Spanish Civil war, which was being fought over the
political division between the right wing nationalists and the left
wing republicans. Although all the world powers had signed an
agreement of non-involvement Nazi troops from Germany and soldiers
from Italy were sent to help the nationalists. A total of 174 welsh
men joined the international brigade to help the republicans along
with Scots, Mexicans and Russians in order to fight for their
communist beliefs and in an attempt to stop the spread of fascism
across the world. 118 of the welsh men that went to Spain were from
the mining valleys of South Wales.
Religiously almost all people in South Wales in this time would have
attended chapel, and although communism, which is what the miners were
fighting for in Spain, is anti religion, as Marx aid "Religion is the
opiate of the people". If you break down the basic principles of
non-conformist Christianity, as that of South Wales, they are very
similar to those of communism. Teachings such as all are equal
therefore it was an easy and seemingly natural progression for the
working class of South Wales. Also it may have given the men an extra
incentive to help free the people of Spain from the Religious tyranny
of the Catholic Church that they had never experienced living in
relative religious freedom in South Wales.
Although I personally feel that this was a minor factor relating to
why the men from south Wales went to help with the Spanish civil war.
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