David North, the National Chairman of the Socialist Equality Party (US) and the Chairman of the International Editorial Board of the World Socialist Web Site, addressed a meeting of students and workers at Wayne State University in Detroit on April 11, 2019. The meeting was part of the series “The Threat of Fascism and How to Fight It.”
Exhibition Rift through Europe: How the history of the Hitler-Stalin Pact is being rewritten in the interests of German imperialism
The traveling exhibition, which was last on display at the Museum Berlin-Karlshorst, is the latest building block in a campaign of historical revisionism with the aim of establishing a right-wing narrative about the Second World War against the backdrop of the escalation of war in Eastern Europe.
Katja Rippert•
80 years after Hitler’s war of annihilation in the east: Germany establishes combat brigade against Russia in Lithuania
With the ceremonial establishment of the permanent combat brigade in Lithuania, the German government under Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has opened a new chapter in the revival of German militarism.
Johannes Stern•
Rise of the far right in Europe: A product of the anti-working class and pro-war policies of the established parties
The results of the most recent elections across Europe underscore a dangerous and accelerating trend: the rise of the far-right and fascistic forces and their integration into the heart of official politics.
Johannes Stern•
The 80th anniversary of the fall of Nazism in Ukraine
How the Ukrainian government is trying to ban and erase the Victory Day holiday
In Kiev, police harassed any visitors who dared to commemorate the victims of the Nazi attack in any way other than laying flowers. At the Memorial of Eternal Glory, police tried to detain two different women for playing the popular Soviet song “Victory Day” on their phones.
Evgeny Tkachenko•
Kevin Reed•
Joshua Seubert, Peter Schwarz•
Nick Barrickman•
Clara Weiss•
Robert Stevens•