The assassination of the Rosselli brothers
Submitted by Fantasma di Tresca on Jun 11 2017 01:43
On the 9th of June 1937, in the French spa town of Bagnoles-de-l'Orne, the Rosselli brothers, Carlo and Nello, were savagely murdered by right-wing thugs. The perpetrators were members of the far-right French clandestine group La Cagoule. The act was sanctioned by the Italian Fascist government in exchange for, “one hundred semi-automatic Berretta rifles.” Carlo Rosselli was the epitome of the resistance; he was the “enfant terrible” of anti-fascist expatriates. This essay will briefly summarize their ideology and actions, and highlight what led up to their assassinations and its aftermath.
Zionism, anti-semitism and the left - Moishe Postone
Interview with Moishe Postone. Postone is a Marxist academic based at the University of Chicago. As well as writing extensively on Marx’s political economy, he has also been central to the development of theories of “left anti-semitism”, which look at ways in which positions taken by left groups, particularly on Israel/Palestine, can feed into, or be based on, hostility to Jews.
The never-ending Lukács debate - G.M. Tamás
On January 25th 2017, the Budapest City Council decided to remove the statue of Georg Lukács from a park in the city’s 13th district. Here, Hungarian marxist and philosopher G. M. Tamás comments on the significance of the gesture.
Life in the century's midnight
Submitted by Steven. on May 27 2017 09:14
A history of the left wing and Jewish resistance movement in the Auschwitz concentration camp during the holocaust, by Marcus Barnett.
The British camps
Submitted by Steven. on May 10 2017 09:18
Though it reached its horrific heights at Auschwitz and Buchenwald, the British, not the Nazis, pioneered the concentration camp.
The early Christian communists
Submitted by Rommon on May 4 2017 06:48
The early Christian Communities practiced communism, here's how we know.
Zionism against Jews - Jews Against Zionism
Text by 'Jews Against Zionism'.
Auschwitz or the great alibi
Article from Communist Left, No. 6, July – December, 1993; translated from La Gauche Communiste, no. 13., 1987. Original in Programme Communiste, N. 11, 1960. Although attributed to Amadeo Bordiga, it was probably written by the French-Jewish Bordigist Martin Axelrad (1926 – 2010), once a refugee, his parents died at Treblinka.
Pepper to throw at fascists: the forgotten women of Cable Street
Submitted by Steven. on Oct 19 2016 11:06
As we commemorate the Battle of Cable Street, it's important to recognise the role women played – and their legacy today.
Prophets of deceit: a study of the techniques of the American agitator - Leo Löwenthal & Norbert Guterman
Part of the 'Studies in Prejudice' series sponsored by the American Jewish Committee in the 1940s/50s. Löwenthal and Guterman's 1949 text provides a detailed study of the figure of the right-wing demagogue and their techniques, with an introduction by Max Horkheimer.
