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
Never again: reflections on the Holocaust
JOHN WIGHT says remembering the victims of the horrific Nazi extermination project is a vital defence of civilisation

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy:
“On January 27 in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound forest to discover the most terrible symbol in modern history.”
This was the moment when Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the extensive network of Nazi extermination camps across Europe, was discovered and the full horror of the Holocaust revealed.
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