JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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The battle for history begins in the classroom
Teaching youngsters about the International Brigades and the Spanish civil war is vital for a proper understanding of 20th-century history, writes JIM JUMP
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General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
DANGEROUS historical revisionism is on the rise. What’s at stake is the memory of the 20th century’s long war against fascism.
We’re talking about the “people’s war,” a phrase coined by Tom Wintringham, a former British Battalion commander during the Spanish civil war.
This was a war that saw ordinary people, whether in armies or as resistance fighters or partisans, fight back against Europe’s fascist dictators and ultimately defeat the Nazi war machine in 1945.
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