Fascism has been, over the last decade, and especially more recently, an object of vigorous debate on the left. But, as a long editorial from the Salvage collective bemoaned about debates over what to make of Russia’s war on Ukraine, much of this debate has been stuck in the ditch of historical analogy. Is Trumpism more like Mussolini’s or Hitler’s fascism? When we stack up all the measures of rights violated and attacked, does the far right today pass the test of comparison with major fascist events of the 20th century? Ivan Drury Zarin writes.
Looking at trade unions in the imperialist countries over the last 40 or so years, their concerns are often seem very limited. This has not always been the case and it needn’t be so in the future. John Tully recounts an exemplary trade union struggle from Australia.
Tony Richardson reviews a film just released about the terrible Stalinist purges of revolutionaries in the 1930s Soviet Union
Dan La Botz reports from the USA about the eight million strong anti-Trump No Kings protests this weekend
We seek revolutionary transformation to meet the compound crisis of ecological disaster, economic collapse, social decay, grotesque inequality, mass impoverishment, growing militarisation, and creeping authoritarianism.
Echo Fortune and Terry Conway report from central London.
July has been designated Disability Pride Month writes Bob Williams-Findlay. Within a historical context, Disability Pride Month is presented in the following manner: “It originated in the United States to commemorate the passing of the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) in July 1990. […].
