JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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The Nazis’ most implacable enemies
This fascinating but neglected history of working-class resistance to Nazi occupation is essential reading, believes JOHN GREEN
WORKING CLASS HERO: Edo Fimmen (insert) monument in Rotterdam designed by Ben Zegers. In 1937 Fimmen declined a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together
On Strike Against the Nazis
By Steve Cushion and Merilyn Moos
Socialist History Society Occasional Publication £5
THIS booklet by Steve Cushion and Merilyn Moos is a well-researched, invaluable contribution to our understanding of the role played by ordinary workers and trade unionists in the fight against Nazi occupation in Europe.
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