 Complete the following phrase:  Hilliards socialist beliefs overcame his religious calling; he abandoned his family and ministry and went to London, where he joined the Communist Party of Great Britain and returned to journalism. He subsequently joined the Communist Party of Ireland, becoming an atheist as well as a Marxist. He joined the International Brigades fighting for the Second Spanish Republic, either the Connolly Column of Irish volunteers or the British column. A comrade-in-arms recalled that he ostentatiously parodied the sign of the cross by reciting In the name of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Stakhanov, Dimitrov, the Party Line while tracing the hammer and sickle with his hand. Hilliard was one of four riflemen in the rearguard covering the Republican retreat after the 