Jacques Pauwels In a remarkable book, 1939 : The Alliance That Never Was and the Coming of World War II, the Canadian historian Michael Jabara Carley describes how, at the end of the 1930s, the Soviet Union repeatedly tried, but finally failed, to conclude a pact of mutual security, in other words a defensive alliance, with…
Category: NAZIS
Ancient Eugenicists
Zanga Chimombo Ancient Egyptians were not Asians, nor aliens. “Genocide might indeed be a worse demon of our nature.” When black civilisation was destroyed first time round there was little to show for its former glories apart from squat noses and thick lips on statues and other artworks that invading lighter folks successively reduced. After…
Warnings Ancient and Modern
Victor Grossman Author’s Comment: Sorry, readers, this update is again longer than planned, and not at all jolly. I hope the next Berlin Bulletin will be pleasanter. And again I want to mention that my book A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee with descriptions, reflections, conclusions, plus many anecdotes and some jokes, is now…
American Exceptionalism = Mass Murder
Glen Ford U.S. police agencies, including the FBI, are incapable of mounting an effective offensive against their soul mates in the armed white right. “The FBI has always behaved as if armed white supremacists were a potential reserve force to help crush Black rebellions.” In the Age of Trump, the New York Times and other corporate media have…
White Power: At Home and Abroad
Thomas Meany Where most people see a “lone shooter,” the armed White Power movement sees “leaderless resistance”. “For much of the 20th century, the struggles against communism and black progress were close to indistinguishable.” In the spring of 1975, as America’s war in Vietnam drew to its grim conclusion, a new magazine targeted readers who did…
Policing the Borders of Suffering
Zoé Samudzi Survivors of the Herero genocide, ca. 1907. Photo: Wikimedia Commons LIKE MANY AMERICANS, my first exposure to the idea of concentration camps came from public school lessons about World War II. But a later, formative influence on my understanding was the stories my mother told me about the Zimbabwean liberation struggle and the…
Two Mass Killings in the US by White Supremacists Within 24 Hours
Peoples Dispatch A Makeshift memorial made by residents of El Paso, Texas, near the mall where the shooting occurred (Photo: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images) 29 people died in two separate incidents of mass killings by racist gunmen in the United States on August 4. 20 people died in the city of El Paso in Texas and…
The Preemptive Counterrevolution and the Rise of the Far Right in Brazil
Ricardo Antunes Finally, the scum of bourgeois society forms the holy phalanx of order and the hero Crapulinski installs himself in the Tuileries as the “saviour of society.” —Karl Marx1 Military Dictatorship and Neoliberalism: The Double Face of Barbarism In 1964, after a period of intense capitalist development that significantly expanded the process of industrialization,…
Ratlines: The Vatican, The Nazis & Western Intelligence
Hugo Turner In one of the more shocking episodes of the Cold War, tens of thousands of Nazi war criminals and their fascist allies were smuggled out of Europe and resettled around the world in places like Argentina, Canada, Australia and the United States. Others were resettled throughout the Middle East and a few ended…
Dissecting Identity and Democracy: The EU’s New Far-Right Super Group
Ellen Rivera and Masha P. Davis Austria Denmark France Belgium Estonia Germany Czech Republic Finland Italy With the highest voter turnout in two decades (50.5%), the recently held European parliamentary elections were clearly viewed with special importance by Europe’s citizens.[1] The outcome was marked by considerable losses of the center factions in the European Parliament,…
American Fascism
Deena Stryker The US has now reached the point where the comparison with Nazi Germany has become inescapable, first and foremost the total powerlessness of citizens to challenge the behavior of their government, even when it comes to its treatment of would-be immigrants to the country known as ‘the melting pot’, although they are paying…
States Collaborating with the Far Right
TruePublica It is not the collapse of Conservatism causing the rise of the far-right in America, Europe and Britain, it is the opposite. It is, however, important to understand that this is exactly how fascism comes to power. Not through elections but because a significant section of the state and capitalist class side with them…
