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
Lessons of history remain unlearned
MARCEL CARTIER looks at the spectre of anti-communism that begins to haunt Germany again
The monument to KPD leader Ernst Thalmann and Reichstag burns in February 1933
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
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Calls for a Universal Basic Income are a red herring, argues the Full Marx editorial team — socialists should fight for Universal Basic Services
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
ALMOST every day, I have the job of taking scores of tourists to some of the most important historical landmarks of Berlin. For many, this is their first glimpse of a city that was the focal point for so many of the 20th century’s most important struggles.
At the Reichstag building, where Germany’s current Parliament also meets, I make sure to reference the fact that the fire of 1933 was the pretext used by Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party (National Socialist German Workers’ Party – NSDAP) to consolidate their dictatorship.
I tell people that because the accused culprits were communists, this conveniently allowed Hitler to push for emergency powers through the Enabling Act.
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