Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings

In 2007, French fascist Le Pen won almost four million votes. In 2009 the British National Party won almost a million votes while Germany’s fascist NPD won over 750,000. In 2010, fascist-led organisations like the Engish Defence League and Italy’s Future and Freedom party emerged. To help activists understand this twenty-first century wave of fascism, this book gathers together the most important analyses from the 20th century. In “”Building unity against fascism”” you can read: * German socialist Clara Zetkin, Bolshevik leader Karl Radek and Italian communist Antonio Gramsci on the birth on fascism in the early 1920s * Leon Trotsky’s article, including “”Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It””, explaining why neither capitalist nor Stalinist parties were able to stop fascism in Italy, Germany and Spain in the 1930s. * Maurice Spector’s detailed analysis of German fascism in power * Daniel Guérin’s 1939 “”Fascism and Big Business”” and his 1945 preface to its French edition * Ted Grant’s booklet, “”The Menace of Fascism””, which discussed British fascism, the second World War and the Jewish community in Britain * Analysis by Felix Morrow, James P Cannon and Farrell Dobbs of the rise and fall of fascist organisations in the USA in the 20th century. —- ISBN: 9780902869813 | ISBN10: 0902869817 | ISBN-13: 978-0902869813