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The day the world caught fire
PHIL KATZ charts the run-up to the most formidable and deadly invasion in the history of mankind – Operation Barbarossa – which took place 80 years ago today
The German Wehrmacht nearby Pruzhany, Belarus, in June 1941
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
TODAY is the 80th anniversary of Operation Barbarossa, when the German army and the full force of Hitler fascism attacked the Soviet Union, without warning, in breach of a non-aggression pact.
Operation Barbarossa took place at lightning pace on a sunny Sunday morning, June 22 1941, and immediately became the most formidable and deadly invasion in the history of mankind.
Worse was to follow. Much worse. Hitler referred to the assault as a “Vernichtungskrieg.” It was a war of destruction. The war for territory was a by-product of a war to the death between two world systems.
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