MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
Afghanistan follies
The end of the 20-year US-Afghanistan adventure is another one of imperialism’s overreaching, supremely arrogant, regime change projects ending in fiasco, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Ronald Reagan talks to mojahedin forces at the White House during the cold war
A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
GEORGE WHITE explains why Unite’s Lancashire area activists committee believes co-ordinated recruitment in an area defined by particular kinds of employment and linked by a major transport artery could provide a model for organising the unorganised
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Calls for a Universal Basic Income are a red herring, argues the Full Marx editorial team — socialists should fight for Universal Basic Services
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
FOR most of the post-war era, the US and Israel — the anointed police agent of the eastern Mediterranean and central Asia — promoted Islamism as a bulwark against secularists and socialists.
Both governments offered arms and aid, while enthusiastically tolerating cultural and political backwardness in the service of imperialist interests.
From Gamal Abdel Nasser to Bashar al-Assad, the US counterposed Islamist “freedom fighters,” with their feudal values and intolerance, against imperfect but secular, anti-monarchical, independent and nationalist regimes.
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