As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
SOON, 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army, there will be no more survivors to bear witness to what was revealed in January 1945. This tragic lacuna will intensify the already existing challenge to Holocaust memory.
Despite ritual genuflections commemorating the horrors unleashed by the Nazis, it is apparent that the past decade has witnessed an accelerating trend toward the distortion of Holocaust history in mainstream political and public discourse.
Although governments and non-governmental institutions continue to launch important initiatives to preserve the memory of the Holocaust and promote public awareness and education about it, the current trend of Holocaust denial and revisionism threatens decades of understanding and meaningful commemoration.
On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
As Moscow celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Nazi defeat without Western allies in attendance, the EU even sanctions nations choosing to attend, revealing how completely the USSR's sacrifice of 27 million lives has been erased, argues KATE CLARK



