Eighty-one years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the threat of far-right extremism is resurging – the lessons of history demand unity, organisation and resistance, argues SABBY DHALU
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Taking the long view
In the first of two articles, VINCE MILLS examines the structural weakness at the base of the Corbyn movement which prevented socialist advance
DAYS OF HOPE: Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader ahead of its annual conference in Brighton, 2015
On Holocaust Memorial Day STEVE SILVER warns that the ‘double genocide’ theory and modern ‘revisionism’ are not just historical errors, but calculated tools for rehabilitating fascist ideology
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR
From the radical promise of early land reform to today’s cautious Community Wealth Building Bill, Scotland’s Parliament has lost sight of its founding ambition to shift power and ownership, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP
Journalists and opposition politicians have described the decision to remove TeleSur from national TV programming as censorship against alternative and critical journalism, reports PABLO MERIGUET
THE recent vindictive and factional assault on Jeremy Corbyn by the Labour Leader Keir Starmer, part of a wider attack on the Labour left, has intensified calls for a new workers’ party, as have the “dog-whistle” attacks on the Tories on crime. It is difficult, given the situation, not to feel sympathetic to this, but socialists need to take a long view.
The Corbyn Project
The proximate cause for calls for a new left party is the collapse of the “Corbyn Project,” although that description gives it a sense of uniqueness, purpose even, that do not match its origins.
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