by Yorgos Mitralias 100 years ago, in early August 1922, the barricades of Parma repelled Mussolini's hordes... At least during the interwar period, when there was a confrontation between the left and the fascists, it was always the fascists who won. And unfortunately, most of the time without meeting a real resistance. However, there has been one important exception. That of the Italian … [Read more...]
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Workers Arise! The Fightback has Begun!
by Roger Silverman We’re witnessing the return of nightmares that we’d always been told had been relegated to ancient history. There had been no pandemics since the flu of 1918; no major slump since the great depression in the 1930s; no threat of world war since 1945; no fear of nuclear annihilation since the 1962 Cuban crisis; no trace of inflation since the 1970s. Just look now: plague; … [Read more...]