Review: ‘War and the International – A history of the Trotskyist movement in Britain 1937 -1949’
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 27 2020 10:00
Why would seriously want to you waste your time reading about various infights of pretty minuscule Trotskyist sects 80 years ago?!
The Murders of Fausto Atti and Mario Acquaviva
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 30 2020 11:01
Under this cross fire of the Stalinists and the Blackshirts the red flag of revolution carried on flying, thanks to the extreme sacrifice of the internationalists of whom we remember first those who died at the hands of the Axis. But the two most significant deaths were not at the hands of the Nazis but the “centrists”, the new social democrats, as the Stalinists were labelled in those days.
Remembering the Early Comrades of the Internationalist Communist Party
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jul 27 2020 21:51
1945 represents the beginning of the period of the fastest growth of the Internationalist Communist Party (PCInt) and the “memorial” below, translated from our Italian site, gives an indication of its geographical extension.
April 1945: Perspectives and Directives of the Internationalist Communist Party
Submitted by Internationalis... on May 7 2020 23:45
As the 75th anniversary of the end of the war in Europe approaches and the British ruling class is trying to use the occasion to stoke patriotic fervour, when we are once again being told we must suffer in the ‘national interest’ due to the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis, it’s a timely reminder that even in the most extreme of circumstances, the brutal imperialist slaughter of World War II, the Communist Left stood for the principle ‘no war between nations, no peace between classes’.
Workers in Stalin's Russia - Marie Louise Berneri
A short book written in 1944. Berneri outlines how socialism did not exist in the U.S.S.R. and how the lives of workers under state socialism was essentially the same as those who lived under capitalist democracies.
The Second World War: A Marxist History
Submitted by Marx-lover on Dec 28 2019 07:04
A summary of an exemplary work of Marxist scholarship. (More such summaries here.)
Migrant Partisans: the Internationalist Resistance Against Italian Fascism
Submitted by Ed on Jul 3 2019 22:26
Wu Ming Foundation deconstruct the myth of an Italian resistance to foreign Nazi occupation that was entirely white and nationalist, showing it instead to have involved thousands of migrants from all corners of the globe fighting Italy's homegrown fascism to create a better world for everyone.
Five Years in the Warsaw Ghetto - Bernard Goldstein
Memoirs of life in the Warsaw ghetto from Bernard Goldstein, leader of the Jewish Labour Bund, recounting his underground activities in Nazi-occupied Warsaw such as how he (and the rest of his group) smuggled food, clothing and, eventually, arms into the Jewish ghetto in preparation for one of the most significant anti-Nazi uprisings during World War Two.
Vichy france: Old guard and new order, 1940-1944
Robert O. Paxton's classic study of the aftermath of France's sudden collapse under Nazi invasion utilizes captured German archives and other contemporary materials to construct a strong and disturbing account of the Vichy period in France.
Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46
Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 10 2018 14:26
Fascinating and detailed paper by Richard Cleminson examining the appalling treatment of Spanish anti-fascist resistance fighters during World War II being detained in internment camps in Britain alongside Nazi and fascist prisoners.
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