Review: ‘War and the International – A history of the Trotskyist movement in Britain 1937 -1949’
The Murders of Fausto Atti and Mario Acquaviva
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
April 1945: Perspectives and Directives of the Internationalist Communist Party
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’.
The Second World War: A Marxist History
A summary of an exemplary work of Marxist scholarship. (More such summaries here.)
Migrant Partisans: the Internationalist Resistance Against Italian Fascism
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.
Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46
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