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…
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…
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 Wu Ming Foundation deconstruct the myth of an Italian resistance to foreign Nazi occupation that was…
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…
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…
Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46 Fascinating and detailed paper by Richard Cleminson examining the appalling treatment of Spanish…
Out of this Capitalist Impasse - A New World Has to Take Shape The post-war boom melted away decades ago. It produced a mass consumer society unheard of in history…
Thoughts on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust Some reflections on the capitalist roots of the Holocaust.
Wartime strikes in Kenya - Makhan Singh Makhan Singh on wartime strikes in Kenya, including struggles against conscript labour, railway strikes, and a general strike in Uganda in…
Auschwitz or the great alibi: What we deny and what we affirm Martin Axelrad's reply to criticisms of his essay "Auschwitz or the Great Alibi". Extract from Prolétaire No. 437, July-August-Sept. 1996.
The pink triangle: the Nazi war against homosexuals A detailed account of the treatment of homosexuals by the Nazi party.
