Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win
by Clara Zetkin
(Haymarket Books, £10.99)

THIS republication of Clara Zetkin’s seminal 1923 report and resolution to the Communist International on the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany and the pressing need to fight it couldn’t be more timely.

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Presciently, Zetkin identifies fascism as “an asylum for all the politically homeless, the socially uprooted, the destitute and disillusioned” and, crucially, sees it as an international phenomenon requiring a corresponding resistance if it is to be defeated.