Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
The hidden heroes of the Danish resistance: The communists during the occupation
Communists lit the spark in the fight against Nazi German occupation, triggering organised sabotage and building bridges between political movements. Many paid with their lives, says Anders Hauch Fenger
Armed Civic Resistance members in May 1945
This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
WHEN Aage Nielsen, a young Danish communist, ducked into the trench at Casa de Campo outside Madrid in 1936 to avoid being hit by bullets from fascist rifles, he thought this was just the beginning of something much bigger than the fight for barren land and the right of Spaniards to defend democracy.
For Aage, an construction worker in Copenhagen, this was part of a larger conflict and he was deeply aware that fascism could threaten not only Spain, but all of Europe.
He feared that if the fascists succeeded in crushing Spanish democracy, it was only a matter of time before Denmark was next.
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