Pixelated Semantics

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The fascists fought the fascists and the fascists won

Political Affairs offers a well-documented, sobering, and somewhat disturbing article on the use of 'anti-communism' (and 'anti-terrorism') to disguise the rise of fascism in Europe, and elsewhere: Behind the condemnation of communism, lies the revival of fascism. The warning that fascism is gaining credibility partly by 'attacking the forces and movements that defend the social and democratic rights of the workers' has a particular resonance with certain developments in Industrial Relations in Australia, by the way. And then there's facts like this:

'In January 2005, the Latvian government, together with the embassy of the United States published a piece called History of Latvia: the XXth century. The book was launched at a press conference given by the President of the Republic. It states, among other things, that the camp of Salaspils, where the Nazis did medical experiments on children and where 90,000 people were killed, was only a "corrective work camp" and that the Waffen-SS were heroes in the struggle against the Soviet occupation.'

PA may be of a Marxist bent; that does not make the writing any less relevant.

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