Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Never again: reflections on the Holocaust
JOHN WIGHT says remembering the victims of the horrific Nazi extermination project is a vital defence of civilisation
A view inside the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, Poland
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Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy:
“On January 27 in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound forest to discover the most terrible symbol in modern history.”
This was the moment when Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the extensive network of Nazi extermination camps across Europe, was discovered and the full horror of the Holocaust revealed.
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