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Donny Gluckstein (ed), *Fighting on all Fronts: popular resistance in the Second World War*, London, Bookmarks, 2015; reviewed by *Philip Ferguson* This is a fascinating book. Its ten contributors provide eleven chapters – two are by Gluckstein – on people's resistance to dictatorship in Europe and Asia/Pacific during World War 2 and struggles within two capitalist democracies (Australia and Ireland, the latter not being formally involved in the second great imperialist conflagration). The struggles range from Jewish resistance to the Nazis and the Holocaust in Eastern Europe, especially Poland, to the Slovak national uprising of 1944 to resistance to French rule in Algeria to Burmese resistance to both British and Japanese imperialism to the Huk rebellion in the Philippines. . . full at: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/14129/ Other recent stuff on Redline. I've put up the nice tribute to Richard Levins that Rob Wallace posted on facebook and there's an article about how the newly-appointed general-secretary of the Labour Party (NZ) is fittingly symbolic of the party's role as capitalist managers (the dude is an actual capitalist manager): https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/16/new-labour-party-general-secretary-indicative-of-partys-managerial-capitalism/ Plus there's a major extract from an interesting letter in the *Weekly Worker* on the state of the British working class: https://rdln.wordpress.com/2016/01/19/disengaging-in-britain/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
