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March 16, 2023

For Australian Jews in the 1940s and 1950s, remembering the Holocaust meant fighting racism and colonialism

Max Kaiser, The University of Melbourne

The memorialisation of the Holocaust was key to the ideas and practice of the popular Australian Jewish antifascist left in the 1940s and 1950s.

A woman hugs a Polish volunteer before he crosses the border to go and fight against Russian forces. AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu

March 17, 2022

Ukraine’s foreign fighters have little in common with those who signed up to fight in the Spanish Civil War

Sebastiaan Faber, Oberlin College and Conservatory

According to some reports, thousands of people from around the world are signing up to fight on behalf of Ukraine. But comparisons to the Spanish Civil War’s International Brigades are misguided.

A statue of the author, Solomon T. Plaatje, in Kimberley, South Africa. flowcomm/Flickr

December 17, 2020

In its portrayal of women, the classic South African novel Mhudi was ahead of its time

Jenny Boźena du Preez, Nelson Mandela University

According to a new book, the friendships among women in the novel reveal its author Sol T. Plaatje’s view of effective political struggle.

A woman claps above a banner reading “everything will be all right,” in Rome. This phrase has appeared on social media and at balconies and windows across Italy as the country faces coronavirus. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

April 13, 2020

What is solidarity? During coronavirus and always, it’s more than ‘we’re all in this together’

Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández, University of Toronto

The word ‘solidarity’ is echoing around the world in the COVID-19 pandemic. But where does the term come from and what does it really mean?

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