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Timely history lesson in Zetkin's warning on 1920s fascist threat
Clara Zetkin (left) with Rosa Luxemburg in 1910
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Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win
by Clara Zetkin
(Haymarket Books, £10.99)
THIS republication of Clara Zetkin’s seminal 1923 report and resolution to the Communist International on the rise of fascism in Italy and Germany and the pressing need to fight it couldn’t be more timely.
The political foresight, clarity and discipline of Zetkin’s Marxist analysis strips fascism of its pretences and exposes the manipulative deceptions and political dishonesty at its core. Yet a consequence of the failure at that time to decisively act on Zetkin’s findings led 16 years later to the slaughter of millions during WWII.
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