Jack Graham

With characteristic clarity and wry humour, legendary socialist journalist Paul Foot explains why socialists say fascists should be silenced. In the process, he forcefully restates the Marxist analysis of fascism, and exposes the hypocrisy and vapidity of mainstream support for 'free speech' for Naz

A little bit of whimsy on my part. A reading of one of my favourite short pieces of writing; Poe's weird, oblique, haunting prose poem about a story told by a daemon. A desolate jungle, a rain of blood, obscurely horrifying water lillies, a congregation of giant beasts, a man with the face of a deit

An essay by Leon Trotsky from 1934 on the differences, similarities, and relations between 'Bonapartism' and fascism, with reference to events in France. I think this is a very important essay for our current moment. I present it here, in its entirety. I have - perhaps presumptuously - added my own

A new audiobook, exclusively available to my patrons before publication on YouTube. A reading of Monos and Daimonos by Edward Bulwer, later known as Edward Bulwer Lytton. Originally published in New Monthly Magazine in May 1830. Praised and imitated by Poe, this is a fascinating and unjustly forgott

I have read another eerie tale, this time an unfairly neglected late work by the master of the modern ghost story M.R. James. In the time of Queen Anne, two clerical scholars at Cambridge venture onto the fens by night, hoping to obtain the key to secret diabolical powers from the burial place of a

"Not every exasperated petty bourgeois could have become Hitler, but a particle of Hitler is lodged in every exasperated petty bourgeois..." In a few hundred brisk but bristling words, written just after Hitler's assumption of power in Germany, Trotsky displays his characteristic panache in analysin

An audiobook of a short horror story. White explorers meet revolting retribution in Africa. An intriguing text with much to tell us about the morbid, sick, anxious psychology of racism, colonialism, and imperialism. WARNING: This story, while fascinating and effective as horror, is very racist. Cont

An exclusive for my patrons. Another little audiobook, in which I read the 20th century Italian Marxist Ignazio Silone's crystalline delineation of fascism from a book he published in 1934. Silone, more famous for the anti-fascist novels Bread and Wine and Fontamara, was a co-founder of the Italian

At long last, here is part 2 of my reading of Zetkin's classic text 'The Struggle Against Fascism'.

An absolute classic, this one. Written by Zetkin (1857–1933) in 1923. Obviously dated but still astonishingly relevant when adapted to current dynamics. This is one of the most important texts in the synthesis of the best version of the Marxist analysis of fascism. This is Part 1 (my division) with

Miliband on the subject of the real relationship between fascism, capitalism, and the state. Lucid and penetrating.

A few years ago, I wrote a response to an essay called 'Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Human Nature' by Murray Rothbard, one of the founders of modern right-libertarianism. Published in 1973, the essay is still widely beloved by many on the right. I tried to demonstrate that Rothbard's argument