Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
In 1930s Europe, Hendrik de Man’s bid to replace class struggle with state planning led to a deadly embrace with fascism. His attempt to graft nationalism onto socialism offers a terrible lesson for social democrats today who adapt their politics to far-right ideas.
Hendrik de Man didn’t fight (...)
A historian has located more than 500 images taken by the Hungarian photographer Kati Horna between 1937 and 1938, when she was working for the CNT anarchist labor union
The forgotten legacy of the Hungarian photographer Kati Horna has been unearthed by a Spanish researcher from the archives (...)
Andy Kilmister reviews Decolonial Communism, Democracy and the Commons, by Catherine Samary, with contributions from Samuel Farber, Silvia Federici, Franck Gaudichaud, Zagorska Golubovic, Ernest Mandel, Goran Markovic, Svetozar Stojanovic and Raquel Varela. Pub. Resistance Books/IIRE/Merlin (...)
On 28 May 1871, French soldiers crushed the Paris Commune, a socialist government that had ruled the city for two months. See how the Guardian and Observer reported the insurrection
The Paris Commune was a radical, popular led government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May, 1871. It (...)
Between 1933 and 1945, Roma and Sinti in Europe were targets of Nazi persecution. Building on long-held prejudices, the Nazi regime viewed Roma as “asocials” (outside “normal” society) and as racial “inferiors.” During World War II, the Nazis and their collaborators killed hundreds of thousands of (...)
On April 25, 1974, a mutiny in the Portuguese army put an end to five decades of dictatorship. The revolution that followed showed how working people can take a modern economy into their own hands.
Today, marks the anniversary of Portugal’s liberation from dictatorship. On April 25, 1974, (...)
Mixed-race children born in 1940s and 50s were forcibly taken from Congolese mothers.
Belgium’s prime minister, Charles Michel, is to apologise on behalf of the state for the kidnapping of mixed-race children, who were torn from their Congolese mothers at the end of the colonial period.
The (...)
Peniche fortress was used to hold dissidents under Portugal’s dictatorship
The guards have long abandoned their posts at Peniche fortress, leaving sentry duty to the seagulls and cormorants that speckle its ancient battlements.
Around and beneath the birds are builders in hardhats and hi-vis (...)
Past and future collide as nationalist Vox party gears up for success in next month’s general election while exhumation of dictator draws closer
The gates of the suburban mausoleum that could soon house Spain’s most restless ghost are decked with a shrivelling bunch of red and yellow carnations, (...)
On International Holocaust Memorial Day we should remember the resistance that organised itself in Nazi death camps.
In summer 1944, Antonia Lehr and two of her friends were deported from Vienna to the Auschwitz concentration camp. Posing as a foreign worker recently married to an Austrian, (...)
IT SEEMS UNEXPECTED — but the effects of the February 1917 revolution in Russia were first felt in neutral Sweden. Together with the other Nordic countries Sweden was spared from the First World War but suffered food shortages and other hardships due to the surrounding conflicts.
The (...)
The latest independence referendum in Catalonia has been declared illegal and central government has offered the region a simple choice; abandon the plans for the referendum or lose all their budgetary powers. This battle for Catalonian independence is among the latest in a long history of (...)
Very recently, Germany’s Cabinet approved a bill that will expunge the convictions of tens of thousands of German men for “homosexual acts” under that country’s anti-gay law known as “Paragraph 175.” That law dates back to 1871, when modern Germany’s first legal code was created.
It was repealed in (...)
Silvio Berlusconi’s tenure reminds us that the Left needs to attack the neoliberal center, not just the populist right.
Just months after the left seemed poised for a historic breakthrough, a shock national vote brought a dangerous reactionary to power. Smashing open the old party of the Right, (...)
Fire and Blood. The European Civil War, 1914-1945. Enzo Traverse. Translated by David Fernbach. London: Verso, 2016. Pages +293, $26.95 hardback.
ENZO TRAVERSO HAS pulled off the rare reconstruction of a past epoch that pulsates with electric immediacy. Fire and Blood fashions events happening (...)
The famous February strike of 1941 was the only major protest in solidarity with Jews in Europe during the Nazi era, and has since been a symbol of resistance.
Day of Amsterdam Whatever one may forget from these bitter times; Never this exceptional day. When the people, threats and dead (...)
The 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials is cause to reflect on the forces that failed to halt Nazism’s rise.
The KPD’s headquarters from 1926 to 1933. Carl Weinrother, 1932
This month marks the seventieth anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, when the Allies officially brought high-ranking (...)
Sergey Nikolsky, a Russian philosopher of culture, says that perhaps the most important idea for Russians “from the fall of Byzantium until today is the idea of empire and the fact that they are an imperial nation. We have always known that we live in a country whose history is an unbroken chain (...)
Accolades continue to be piled upon the historian Tony Judt, following his untimely death in August 2010. For the Guardian, he was ‘a fearless critic of narrow orthodoxies’, ‘a great historian’, ‘a brilliant political commentator’. For the New York Review of Books, ‘a source of inspiration’, who (...)
While European countries have condemned the new Holocaust revisionism in the Baltics, America shows no moral leadership
Some years ago, the then American ambassador here in Vilnius, Lithuania, said to me with a brotherly wink over lunch:
"Looks to me, Dovid, that you’re the old New York (...)
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