Review: The Key to Rebecca, by Ken Follett
Only recently, I learned that the title of this book — and a key part of the story — is based on real events. There really was a German Nazi spy who helped Rommel’s armies…
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Italy: It’s time to complete the anti-fascist revolution
Of the three aggressor nations that made up the Axis during the Second World War, only one saw its population rise up and topple a dictatorship. While the populations of Germany and Japan remained largely…
Review: How to Stop Fascism, by Paul Mason
Journalist and author Paul Mason turns to the past to see what worked — and what didn’t work — in the fight against fascism in the twentieth century. He confronts head-on the staggering failure of…
Is Fairphone fair for workers?
If you own a smartphone, you’re almost certainly contributing to several big problems in the world. These include a negative environmental impact, the production of mountains of e-waste as perfectly good phones are thrown away,…
Review: Four Thousand Weeks: Time and How to Use It, by Oliver Burkeman
Oliver Burkeman is a recovering “personal productivity” addict. I feel his pain. He’s a writer who knows his Pomodoro Method, his GTD, even his ‘First Things First”. And after years of writing about all the…
Review: A Line to Kill, by Anthony Horowitz
This book, the third in a series featuring the fictional detective Daniel Hawthorne, a Sherlockian consulting detective if there ever was one, and his very own Dr. Watson — Anthony Horowitz himself. It’s an amusing…
Hong Kong: Silence is not an option
When the question of trade unions in China would come up, some of us were fond of saying that there is an independent, democratic trade union movement in the country. It is called the Hong…
Review: Workers resistance against Nazi Germany at the International Labour Conference 1933, by Reiner Tosstorff
Every year in June, representatives of the world’s governments, employers and workers come together for the International Labour Conference in Geneva. This has been happening more or less since the founding of the International Labour…
In 1933, the world’s trade unions forced Germany out of the ILO – let’s do the same today to Iran
The Islamic Republic of Iran is a clerical fascist regime. It is essentially no different from the fascist regimes we know from history – Mussolini’s Italy, Franco’s Spain and most infamously, Hitler’s Germany. It is…
Beyond refugees: What the Left needs to say and do about Afghanistan
Pictured: The German language version of the newsletter Fascism, published to fight against the Nazi and Fascist regimes by the International Transport Workers Federation. Calls on Britain and other wealthy countries to take in Afghan…