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antisemitism

The challenge of antisemitism

Posted on 11th October 2023 by International Socialism

The fight against antisemitism today is beset with difficulties.1 Challenges come from three directions. First, there has been a documented increase in antisemitism across the globe.2 To deflect from crises our ruling classes are encouraging the rise of bigotry and… Continue Reading →

Article antisemitism, Israel, Palestine

Can we understand the Holocaust?

Posted on 9th October 2020 by International Socialism

A review of Enzo Traverso, Critique of Modern Barbarism: Essays on Fascism, Anti-semitism and the Use of History, IIRE (2019), £17. Can Marxism help us to understand the Holocaust? Marxism is a body of theoretical and experiential understanding that tries… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, Second World War, The Holocaust

The Bolsheviks and antisemitism

Posted on 9th October 2020 by International Socialism

A review of Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, Cambridge University Press (2019), £22.99 Brendan McGeever’s meticulously researched book uncovers truly shocking revelations about the scale of antisemitism during the civil war that followed the October 1917 Russian Revolution.1… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, Bolshevik Party, Bolsheviks, Jewish Labour Bund

German Marxism and the Holocaust

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

A review of Horst Haenisch, Faschismus und der Holocaust: Versuch einer Erklärung (Edition Aurora, 2017), €8.50 The Holocaust is unusual in gaining more prominence as more time has passed since it occurred. Two reasons for this stand out. Few expected… Continue Reading →

Book reviews antisemitism, The Holocaust

Darkening prospects

Posted on 25th June 2018 by Camilla

Internationally the neoliberal order continues to implode. Donald Trump seems intent on pursuing trade wars with both the United States’ strategic rival China and allies such as the European Union and Canada, while he embraces détente with North Korea, once… Continue Reading →

Analysis Anti-racism, antisemitism, Labour Party

Antisemitism and the far-right today

Posted on 5th April 2017 by Camilla

Within weeks of Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, news and media channels were dominated by charges of antisemitism levelled against his supporters, the National Union of Students and others for their opposition to the State of Israel. The furore… Continue Reading →

Article antisemitism, Fascism, Islamophobia, Racism, the far right

The Labour Party,
anti-Semitism and Zionism

Posted on 3rd January 2017 by Camilla

In June and July 1917, the then secretary of the Labour Party Arthur Henderson visited revolutionary Russia on behalf of Lloyd George’s coalition government. He returned extremely disturbed by what he had seen. The radicalism of the Russian working class… Continue Reading →

Article antisemitism, Israel, Labour Party, Zionism
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