T.P. Wilkinson The history of liberated Angola, like the history of the world, cannot be told by humanity’s oppressors. “In the jargon of the ‘West,’ anyone called a communist who becomes a head of state must be a dictator.” What I want to do here is something very simple. I want to explain how I…
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The Anti Nazi League and its Lessons for Today
Paul Holborow The Anti Nazi League and the mass movement it generated in the late 1970s is one of the great achievements of the revolutionary left in post-war Britain. The experience is particularly important today with the growth of the far right internationally. Paul Holborow, organising secretary of the Anti Nazi League in 1977-1980, and…
Fascism in Europe Today
Mark L Thomas We live in troubling times. Across Europe, the far right is advancing and growing in confidence. In France, the Front National candidate Marine Le Pen entered the run-off for the French presidency in 2017 for only the second time in the party’s history. She took 10.6 million votes, double what her father…
Workers Power and the Spanish Revolution
Black Rose Federation In a political moment where the tide of fascism appears to be on the march, looking at past examples can provide inspiration, hope and lessons. In this valuable and lucid long-form essay, veteran writer and activist Tom Wetzel details what George Orwell described when first arriving in anarchist dominated Barcelona as his first…
The Roots of Fascism in Ukraine: From Nazi Collaboration to Maidan
Sam Shipman In recent years Ukraine has popped up in the mainstream media due to explosive political developments. Starting with the “Orange Revolution” in November of 2004, to the Euromaidan coup d’etat that was carried out by multiple fascists organizations and was propped up and propagated by the US government. With the recent surge in…
A Dozen Shades of Far Right
The growing threat of authoritarianism demands mass movements and broad-based anti-fascist action on the basis of internationalism and genuine solidarity. By Maik Fielitz Earlier this year, a site in the German city of Dresden that had originally been designated for a refugee shelter was turned into a court room. Ironically, it now hosts a terror…
