The Socialist Party of Great Britain are hosting a talk by James Heartfield, author of recently published Unpatriotic History of the Second World War
It vindicates the opposition to the Second World War as a conflict, on both sides, as one between rival imperialist powers for a re-division of the world, and not at all a war of "democracy" against "fascism", a war in which both sides screwed down the working class and committed atrocities.
James Heartfield is an ex-RCPer (which used to publish Living Marxism)
The date is very appropriately Sunday 11 November (Armistice Day) at 6pm.
at the SPGB Head Office 52 Clapham High Street.
Very timely - will this be
Very timely - will this be recorded?
By co-incidence, Bookmarks
By co-incidence, Bookmarks are relaunching Danny Gluckstein's A People's History of the Second World War on Saturday at 6.30. But although Gluckstein starts off from the same position as Heartfield that:
he ends up supporting the war:
I suppose that if you make a big fuss about the threat of "fascism" today (as do the SWP) then you are logically driven to this conclusion. Or maybe this is just an echo of the ideological smokescreen of "anti-fascism" under which the Allies fought the war.
Anyway, this Armistice Day weekend is providing an opportunity to hear both sides of the argument. For supporting the war on the Saturday, against on the Sunday.
The recording of James
The recording of James Heartfield's talk has been uploaded to our audio section -
http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/audio/unpatriotic-history-2nd-world-war
I noticed this pdf has
I noticed this pdf has disappeared from the library. Copyright???
Bump I would also be happy if
Bump
I would also be happy if that book would return here. Its a great resource for little known infos.
Quote: James Heartfield is an
But more recently of the Brexit Party alongside Farage. Heartfield is apparently less unpatriotic than he used to be; https://www.thefullbrexit.com/brexit-party-heartfield
Also a journalist for the new-right Spiked. Yet in 2018 he wrote an article for Insurgent Notes on 1968 where he unrealistically complained that the International Socialists (SWP precursors) and the left were "reluctant to fight for political leadership" and so failed to seize power in 68;