Italy’s “Government of Change”: History as Farce
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 14 2018 12:50
The new populist “government of change” made up of the anti-European Five Star Movement and the racist Lega (The League, formerly the Lega Nord or Northern League) has begun to adopt some of the same empty rhetoric of the past. Their target is not much different from the fascist anti-semitism of the past. Whilst their main guns are today trained at the EU they also point to the nefarious activities of “financiers like Soros”. George Soros is of course the target of the anti-semitic campaign of Orbans in Hungary. According to these “populists” the problem is not capitalism but only some aspects of it.
Spanish anti-fascist ‘prisoners of war’ in Lancashire, 1944–46
Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 10 2018 14:26
Fascinating and detailed paper by Richard Cleminson examining the appalling treatment of Spanish anti-fascist resistance fighters during World War II being detained in internment camps in Britain alongside Nazi and fascist prisoners.
Adam Smith to Richard Spencer: Why Libertarians turn to the Alt-Right
Elliot Gulliver-Needham writes on the relatively underexplored trajectory of many 'libertarians' joining the far-right.
Who was Harry Cowley?
Submitted by Working Class H... on Oct 8 2018 20:38
PDF pamphlet about the life and times of Harry Cowley, a chimney sweep, antifascist and working class hero from Brighton, England.
Are We Going Back to the 1930s?
Submitted by Internationalis... on Sep 12 2018 13:23
You would have to be well over 80 to directly remember anything about the 1930s. The nearest thing to real experience of that time, for those in the succeeding generation, was listening to our parents who preferred to forget about them.
Against mirror world: fascists were not socialists
Submitted by Comrade Motopu on Aug 26 2018 10:03
A couple of excerpts from the work of scholars of fascism against the notion that the fascists were socialists.
Thoughts on the 70th anniversary of the end of the Holocaust
Submitted by Marx-lover on Aug 23 2018 01:35
Some reflections on the capitalist roots of the Holocaust.
Ur-Fascism - Audio book
An audio book of Umberto Eco's essay on the development of Fascism. Produced by the group Audible Anarchist.
Technological society—mass society – Miguel Amorós
A 2005 summary of the author’s views concerning the defeat of the working class in the 1970s and 1980s, the role played by technology in this defeat, the rise of the “masses” (who cannot “distinguish between reality and fiction”) that emerged from the dissolution of class consciousness as subjects of consumer society under the new totalitarian or “fascist” conditions, the repercussions of these developments on ideology (not exactly “fascist”, but a “hodgepodge … of previous ideologies”) and politics (“managing the survival of the masses under catastrophic conditions”) during the last thirty years, and prospects for revolutionary critique and resistance.
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