As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
Latest editorial
When Hitler’s wonder woman popped up in Kensal Rise
PETER FROST looks back 80 years to a visit to Britain by a very nasty woman indeed
NAZIS TO THE CORE: Scholtz-Klink (left and below) at a Hitler Youth rally on 13 February 1939 alongside Heinrich Himmler, Rudolf Hess, Baldur von Schirach, and Artur Axmann
[Bundesarchiv/Creative Commons]
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the UK government intervenes to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
EIGHTY years ago this month, on March 7 1939 as war clouds gathered over Europe, and just nine days before Germany invaded Czechoslovakia, German woman Gertrud Scholtz-Klink whom Adolf Hitler had described as the perfect nazi female landed at Croydon Airport.
When Hitler had come to power in 1933, he appointed long time nazi supporter Scholtz-Klink as Reich’s women’s “fuhrerin” and head of the nazi Women’s League.
Ironically, Scholtz-Klink had long argued against the participation of women in politics. “Anyone who has seen the communist women scream on the street and in parliament, realise that such an activity is not something which is done by a true woman,” she declared.
Similar stories
No excuses can hide the criminal actions of a Nazi fellow-traveller in this admirably objective documentary, suggests MARTIN HALL
PHIL KATZ looks at how the Daily Worker, the Morning Star's forerunner, covered the breathless last days of World War II 80 years ago
The pivotal role of the Red Army and sacrifices of the Russian people in the defeat of Nazi Germany must never be forgotten, writes DR DYLAN MURPHY
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin