Building Unity Against Fascism

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 750000. 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.