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From Oswald Mosley to nazi King Edward VIII
PETER FROST takes a look back on the dark history of fascism in Britain between the wars
Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Union of Fascists, surrounded by police after speaking in public for the first time since the war at the Memorial Hall in Farringdon, 1947
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
AFTER 1920, unemployment in Britain never dropped below one million for the whole of the inter-war years. It was a time of little hope for the working class.
Oswald Mosley declared he had the answer. He had begun his career as a young maverick Tory MP, but when the Conservative Party threatened to expel him, he left it first as an independent and then as a Labour MP.
Finding no support for his fascist ideas, Mosley resigned from Parliament to start the New Party. The handful of MPs he took with him soon deserted what was obviously a sinking ship and his New Party soon sank.
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