La Pasionaria Fridge Magnet (9cm by 6.5cm)

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La Pasionaria Fridge Magnet (9cm by 6.5cm)

A favourite of many people, this statue, on Clyde Street in Glasgow, is a memorial to the 2,100 British volunteers who fought for the Republican cause against Franco’s fascist forces in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and 1939. Of these, 534 died, including 65 from Glasgow. The statue was created by Arthur Dooley and was erected in 1979. It features Dolores Ibarruri, known as La Pasionaria (the Passionflower), an activist renowned for her passionate speeches. The plinth for the statue (not shown in this photo) features Ibarruri’s slogan ‘It’d better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees’. This is one of only three statues of real, non-royal women in Glasgow, and the only non-Scottish one. Ibarruir was born in 1895 and died in 1989, some ten years after this statue was created.

The magnet is 9cm by 6.5 cm, and features a high-quality laminated print of this image.

This magnet is also available as part of a set of four Glasgow icon fridge magnets.

This photograph is also available as as a mounted print and an A6 greeting card.