The Foreign Enlistment Act of 1937 made it illegal to do so and many Mackenzie-Papineau veterans were blacklisted from service in the Canadian military. This law, still on the books, should also be applicable to those Canadians who now serve in the genocidal IDF, but it’s very unlikely it will be applied.

TIL. Probably not right away, but I think Western support for Israel is in it’s waning days.

Had they served in the Second World War they might have had their gravestones paid for by the government of Canada, but at the time of the Spanish Civil war that government was rather ambivalent about fascism and certainly suspicious of those who would go off to fight it. The Foreign Enlistment Act of 1937 made it illegal to do so and many Mackenzie-Papineau veterans were blacklisted from service in the Canadian military. This law, still on the books, should also be applicable to those Canadians who now serve in the genocidal IDF, but it’s very unlikely it will be applied.

As of right now, these two men are hard to even find at Queens Park Cemetery. You have to count your way from the end of a row and look for a gap between graves. We’d like to change that. If you’ve got a few dollars to spare, consider helping us finally fund some gravestones for two people who fought the fascist menace and likely suffered the rest of their lives for it.