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Holocaust Memorial Day – shining a light on the past and the present
We need to guard against historical revisionism, while recognising just how close Nazi-fascism came to achieving its stated goal, warns PHIL KATZ
ARBEIT MACHT FREI: A general view of the gates at Auschwitz I camp, viewed from inside the camp
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
HOLOCAUST Memorial Day, HMD, seeks to shine a light on the attempted destruction of the Jews, Roma and Sinti people, during World War II.
Nowhere before in history had a political movement emerged — Nazism — whose principal aim was the use of state power to completely erase another group from the face of the Earth. As a result of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, this was all to be achieved legally.
Nowadays, we memorialise the Holocaust, but all too rarely stop to recognise how close Nazi-fascism came to achieving its stated goal.
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