In 1945 Churchill justified the brutal repression of the Greek workers at the hands of British troops. The then leaders of the Labour Party and the Communist Party in Britain hid the real meaning of the Greek events from the British workers. Ted Grant exposed this terrible betrayal in this article that appeared in the Mid-February 1945 edition of the Socialist Appeal. Read the article on the Ted Grant Archive.
This VE Day, we publish the editorial by Alan Woods from the latest issue of the Revolutionary Communist International’s quarterly theoretical journal, In Defence of Marxism, which cuts through the bourgeois propaganda surrounding WW2.
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where over a million Jews, Poles, Roma and communists were murdered by the Nazis. But today’s commemoration was tarnished by the hypocrisy of western imperialism.
Today, western leaders gathered in Normandy, allegedly to commemorate the lives lost in the fight against Nazism. But as Alan Woods explains, the Allied leaders played an insignificant role in defeating fascism, compared to the struggle and sacrifice of the Soviet people.