Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

THIS weekend, thousands will march in London’s East End commemorating the victory over Oswald Mosley’s fascists at the Battle of Cable Street 90 years ago. This is no mere memorial. The far right is again on the rise. Masked, black-clad thugs have paraded in Portsmouth and Dover, menacing immigrants and emergency service workers. Their racist narrative is amplified, in Parliament, by Reform and Restore MPs, the former party vying for first place in polls — a level of support Mosley never approached. Nigel Farage’s invectives against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, his wail of “two-tier justice” when a man is held in custody for allegedly knifing an inflatable dinghy with a rescue worker on board, show there is a connection between the far right’s “respectable” Westminster face and the brutes on the street. Mosley had close ties to fascist dictatorships in Italy and Germany, and was lavishly funded by both. The Battle of Cable Street took place against the backdrop of the titanic struggle between fascism and democracy in Spain. The British government pursued a policy of appeasing an expansionist Nazi Germany, with powerful ruling-class circles hoping to direct its aggression eastwards against the Soviet Union. Part of it, exemplified...

Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

THIS weekend, thousands will march in London’s East End commemorating the victory over Oswald Mosley’s fascists at the Battle of Cable Street 90 years ago. This is no mere memorial. The far right is again on the rise. Masked, black-clad thugs have paraded in Portsmouth and Dover, menacing immigrants and emergency service workers. Their racist narrative is amplified, in Parliament, by Reform and Restore MPs, the former party vying for first place in polls — a level of support Mosley never approached. Nigel Farage’s invectives against the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, his wail of “two-tier justice” when a man is held in custody for allegedly knifing an inflatable dinghy with a rescue worker on board, show there is a connection between the far right’s “respectable” Westminster face and the brutes on the street. Mosley had close ties to fascist dictatorships in Italy and Germany, and was lavishly funded by both. The Battle of Cable Street took place against the backdrop of the titanic struggle between fascism and democracy in Spain. The British government pursued a policy of appeasing an expansionist Nazi Germany, with powerful ruling-class circles hoping to direct its aggression eastwards against the Soviet Union. Part of it, exemplified...

Franklin D. Roosevelt was slow to confront the threat of Fascism. A new history explores how he—and the country—finally came around.

As inequality, inflation, and overwhelming corporate power threaten democracy, a rising-star economist asks what it would mean to create an anti-fascist economics that guarantees dignity for all....

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Het boek De man die Tito ging vermoorden van Zoran Bogdanović, Erik Schaap en Evert de Vos heeft De Treckpoel-prijs 2026 gewonnen. Het vertelt het levensverhaal van André Engwirda, die van antifascist...