WWII resistance

On Strike Against the Nazis

Pamphlet including two texts: Class Struggle and Resistance in Northern France and Belgium during the Second World War by Steve Cushion, and The International Transport Workers' Federation and Working Class Resistance to the Nazis by Merilyn Moos.

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…

Migrant Partisans: the Internationalist Resistance Against Italian Fascism.

Migrant Partisans: the Internationalist Resistance Against Italian Fascism

Wu Ming Foundation deconstruct the myth of an Italian resistance to foreign Nazi occupation that was…

Spanish anti-fascist prisoners in Chorley

Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46

Fascinating and detailed paper by Richard Cleminson examining the appalling treatment of Spanish…

The left wing opposition in Italy during the period of the Resistance - Arturo Peregalli

An account of the groups to the left of the PCI, during WW2 by Arturo Peregalli…

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A Worker’s Message From Poland And The Ghetto: “Socialism Lives and Will Dominate the World”

The second private letter from a German worker and soldier active in the…

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Letter From A Worker In The German Underground

The first private letter from a German worker and soldier active in the underground socialist movement in Germany, sent to a friend in the United…

Memorial to the workers outside the post office

Defence of the Polish post office in Danzig

A short account of the employees of the Danzig post office who fought the Nazis for 15 hours during the invasion of Poland before they were…

Simone Seguin, French resistance fighter, Paris

Review: Soldiers of the night: the story of the French resistance by David Schoenbrun

Stuart Christie's review of David Schoenbrun's book on the French resistance during World War II.

The Bielski Brothers Jewish Resistance and the "Otriad" - Carmelo Lisciotto

An account of the resistance organisation led by the Bielski brothers, whose actions were the…

Stanislaw Smajzner After His Escape From Sobibor

Extracts from the Tragedy of a Jewish Teenager - Stanislaw Smajzner

The personal account of Stanislaw Smajzner of his time spent in the Extermination camp at Sobibor…

Rudolph Vrba - Escapee from Auschwitz by Anthony Skelton and Carmelo Lisciotto

The story of Rudolph Vrba, an escapee from Auschwitz who co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler report, AKA…