WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
The Nazis’ most implacable enemies
This fascinating but neglected history of working-class resistance to Nazi occupation is essential reading, believes JOHN GREEN
WORKING CLASS HERO: Edo Fimmen (insert) monument in Rotterdam designed by Ben Zegers. In 1937 Fimmen declined a nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.
[FaceMePLS/Creative Commons inset: coll. IISG Amsterdam] 
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
On Strike Against the Nazis
By Steve Cushion and Merilyn Moos
Socialist History Society Occasional Publication £5
THIS booklet by Steve Cushion and Merilyn Moos is a well-researched, invaluable contribution to our understanding of the role played by ordinary workers and trade unionists in the fight against Nazi occupation in Europe.
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