Madrid's dangerous attempt to distort the history of the Spanish civil war

Madrid's dangerous attempt to distort the history of the Spanish civil war | David Mathieson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: 
"Further into the university campus the same students pass by a much smaller memorial, so modest that many of them will not even be aware of its existence. A simple metal column, paid for by many individual private donations, bears an inscription dedicated to the thousands of volunteers of the International Brigades who went to fight in Spain. In November 1936 the university campus became a key theatre of the war. As Franco tried to take Madrid his troops were resisted there in some of the bloodiest fighting of the conflict: hundreds of international brigadiers died alongside locals defending the faculty buildings under the famous slogan which has became a rallying cry for anti-fascists ever since: "No Pasarán"."