MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
Lawrence Ferlinghetti: a veteran for peace
Lifelong poet, author, publisher and activist dies age 101
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
GEORGE WHITE explains why Unite’s Lancashire area activists committee believes co-ordinated recruitment in an area defined by particular kinds of employment and linked by a major transport artery could provide a model for organising the unorganised
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SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
IN 1962, a group of San Francisco veterans of World War II and the Korean war, knowing that the Vietnam war was looming, marched unofficially at the end of the annual Veterans Day Parade under the banner of “Veterans For Peace.”
The principal organiser was world-renowned poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, who died on February 22 at the age of 101 at his home in North Beach, the literary heart of San Francisco.
The turning point in Ferlinghetti’s life came in late September 1945 as he walked the streets of Nagasaki, Japan, six weeks after an atomic bomb was dropped on the city by his country’s government.
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