Palestine
following regularly "The Jews *1 am convinced hate us and 'In my Bernard for Europe'.
war, throughout the of the entering I eventually exterminated.
which at that time was under British control. Throughout the war, ships with Jewish survivors were refused Palestine. After one ship (the Salvador) sank with over 200 people drowning, the head of the Foreign Office Refugee Section said: "There could have been no more opportune disaster from the point of view of stopping the traffic.
They controlled all Jewish refugees to Britain itself. For instance in 1942 the Vichy regime in France agreed to hand over 19,000 Jews to the Germans to be deported to Poland. This meant certain murder. Appeals to the British were refused on the grounds that 'We cannot turn our country into a sponge Wasserstein produces evidence show that for the first 18 months of the the Germans nad a polic of expulsion and not extermination of the Jews. However, the British refused to take any expelled Jews on the grounds that they were not 'War refugees in the sense that they are in danger because they have fought against the Germans but simply racial refugees'. Most were Britain before the war were put in "internment camps' on the grounds that they were potential "enemy Thousands of these Jews forcibly deported to various parts of the British empire. ship-load of deported Jews were killed when Arandora Star torpedoed.
Combined with this was the utterly cynical attitude towards the information about the concentration camps. The true facts were known from at least April 1940.
They were greeted with remarks (from the Foreign Office) like: 'As a general rule Jews are magnify their persecutions, remember the exaggerated stories Jewish pogroms in Poland after the last war which were found to have little • substance' Though a public declaration was made in December 1942 this was mainly for anti-German propaganda. Even a late as 1945 an officiat of the Refuge Section of the Foreign Office wrote that | 'One notable tendency in Jewishi STEVE COHEN the numbers deaths.' aliens'. Throughout the were then organisations made In July 1940 a and incinerators at Auschwitz.
was complex which they had adjacent to Auschwitz.
press regularly featured inclined profiteering, and I pacifism. of before his own suicide:
tion of the Jewish people taking any steps to prevent it.
THE apparent limitation of this book — the fact that it's written for activists - is its strength. In detail, Fred Halstead documents the movement in the against the wars in Indo-China, and in Its relevance will be recognisable to militants in Britain attempting to build campaigns againsi Halstead's argument is that the greatest aid revolutionaries in imperialist country can offer to struggles in oppressed nations is to build a mass movement which can check and finally stymie the imperialist Halstead illustrates how this political line was able to prove the most effective in the USA despite considerable support for alternatives from the right and the left. The Socialist Workers Party and Young Socialist amiano (American co-thinkers of the Fourth International] fought to maintaie toe mass character of the movement, even when there was no reass sapport.
They insisted on a concentration on the issae of the troug united actioes willis which al political force democratic cau their particular opposition to the war. The reass character ol weighed against those seeking an acco imperialism; and those aiming to tura the anti-mar more The inability of US imperialism to defeat the Indo Chinese Russia in 1917. The breadth of this movement is startling. In May 1970, after the invasion of Cambodia, over four million out of a total of seven million students 1ook part in strikes and demonstrations. In April 1971, on the sarke day, demonstrations of 750,000 took place in Washington; 300,000 in Ser Francisco; plus myriad other actions throughout the country.
All areas of American society were affected. There were even instances of organised opposition in the CIA. Halstead's material on the crumbling of morale in the American army and the organisation of the Gis against the war The book makes it clear how such a movement contributes to a more permanent change in society. The principle of non-exclusion which the anti-war movement adhered to meant that socialists were able to. work openly once again after the long era of McCarthy, and despite the fact that The oppressed nationalities, the women's liberation, gay, student, and the workers' movements were also able to make common cause against the US government. Such an experience is bound to be repeated. Activists in the United Troops Out Movement and Anti-Apartheid will probably gain the most from this book, but it's recommended for all socialists as a genuinely all these | economic One cals a flaislic., return progress Health in Danger remains alternative the NHS.
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of deportations and Jewish requests to the • government to bomb the gas chambers Thes were told that such pin-point bombing was technically impossible. However ir September 1944 the US airforce was . able to bomb the IG Farben industrial was immediately There is no other explanation of all this than deep-rooted anti-semitism For instance during the war the popula anti-Jewish articles, accusing Jews in this country food hoarding and As one Polish Jew wrote shortly 'Let my death be an energetic cry of protest against the indifference of the world which witnesses the extermina 'without tbe best Marxist immediately an rationalisations for cuts offered by successive Labour and Tory administrations and the return of what less caring Britain, of the Poor Law mentality', the author swamps us with a historical inevitability. But essential reading for health workers and users of reviewed here available from The Other Bookshop politics Duncan Hallas Trotsky's Marxism £2.50 New impression Leon Trotsky History of the Russian Revolution £7.95 Big Red Diary 1980 Politics in Sport £1.95 Mark Poster Sartre's Marxism £2.95 Also:
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