DAVID ROSENBERG assesses the far-right threat in the wake of the summer's Islamophobic pogroms and asks what lessons we can learn from the 1930s

DAVID ROSENBERG takes a look back to the days when the Anti-Nazi League and Rock Against Racism stood against against the thugs of the National Front, and sees some important differences to the anti-racism battles of today, which call for fresh thinking rather than transplanting the tactics of the ’70s

The large demonstrations against the war in Gaza saw a participation of progressive young Jews. DAVID ROSENBERG welcomes the renewed interest in the traditions of Jewish socialist internationalism

DAVID ROSENBERG recalls the Islington North MP’s record as an ever-present fighter against division, xenophobia and hate 

Eighty years since Jewish rebels made their heroic last stand against the Nazis, DAVID ROSENBERG looks at events and the fight over the meaning of their legacy

DAVID ROSENBERG asks what lessons we can draw from the Forde report into allegations of anti-semitism in the Labour Party

A talk by DAVID ROSENBERG on a panel at Stand Up To Racism’s Holocaust Memorial Day event 2022

When thousands of anti-fascist Jews, trade unionists and communists successfully blockaded a major British Union of Fascists march through the East End of London in 1936, they set a legacy of resistance to the far right that continues today, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

Extending Labour’s purge to trade union leaders like the BFAWU's Ian Hodson isn't an overzealous mistake — it is part of a plan to break the Labour Party's link with the organised working class once and for all, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

The government might call it ‘freedom day’ but we are far from free of Covid and the devastating effects of Tory mismanagement, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

Four years ago Jeremy Corbyn led Labour into the 2017 general election and shook the Establishment to its core with his policies for the many not the few. But now the demoralisation of the party is palpable, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

The IHRA’s ‘monopoly’ on defining anti-semitism could be about to end with a new set of guidelines to assist in identifying real anti-Jewish prejudice while upholding free speech on Israel, Palestine and zionism. DAVID ROSENBERG explains

Today, two Polish historians await the verdict of a libel case brought against them for documenting Polish complicity in the extermination of the Jews during World War II. DAVID ROSENBERG reports

Many Jewish people reject the idea of a fortress state, favouring alternative ways to build equal lives for Jews, as a minority, wherever they live, says DAVID ROSENBERG

Keir Starmer has said he wants rebuild trust and speak with the Jewish community. The problem is that the Jews he means are only those who support his underhand campaign against staunch anti-racist Jeremy Corbyn — and all he represents, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

by David Rosenberg

Monuments to collective struggle can teach us more than idolising ‘the great and the good,’ says DAVID ROSENBERG

The advice given to anti-racists by a veteran Jewish communist 50 years ago remains as valid as ever. DAVID ROSENBERG recalls a tragic case obscured by later similar events in the East End

The Tory campaign is a car crash whose flaming wreckage even the biased media cannot hide. Hammer home our core values and policies today and we will win, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

Anti-semitism and racism are to be found in spades in today’s Toryland, says DAVID ROSENBERG

Revisiting the central themes of the 2016 Chakrabarti report would provide a way forward amid accusations of anti-semitism – to recognise that expulsions are not always helpful and people can change, show remorse and learn, says DAVID ROSENBERG

Rebel Footprints, David Rosenberg's great and indispensable walking guide to radical London, has just been republished in an updated edition. Here he introduces the outstanding people and places covered in the book, from the Chartist era onwards

When Siobhain McDonagh revealed that she thought all Jews were rich capitalists, she exposed the genuine bigotry at the heart of this crass crusade, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

DAVID ROSENBERG takes a closer look at the Campaign Against Antisemitism

Holocaust, shoah, genocide – none of the words chosen to describe the nazis’ extermination programme are free of ideology, writes DAVID ROSENBERG

Another Europe is Possible’s separate protest against Ukip’s march on December 9 risks splitting the anti-racist forces on the basis of EU Leave or Remain. Now is not the time for division, says DAVID ROSENBERG

DAVID ROSENBERG reports back from a deeply moving educational trip to Auschwitz-Birkenau

So ranted Oswald Mosley: 82 years on DAVID ROSENBERG relays how the peoples' victory over fascism at Cable Street took place in an era of astonishing racism towards Jews

DAVID ROSENBERG takes issue with Jonathan Sacks’s attack on Jeremy Corbyn and the former’s position on human rights

Many of those complaining about the Labour leader have refused to meet him. The reason for that, writes DAVID ROSENBERG, is because they are worried they would be exposed

by David Rosenberg

Seventy-five years ago, Polish Jewish socialist Szmul Zygielbojm killed himself in his London flat in an effort to draw leaders' attention to the plight of Poland's Jews. DAVID ROSENBERG tells his story

Labour needs to set its own agenda rather than follow that of right-wing papers and unrepresentative Jewish ‘leaders,’ says DAVID ROSENBERG