As in the 1930's, Europe swings Right amid deepening depression
Demonstrators confront a British National Party member at the Town Hall in Manchester. (Reuters)
June 8 - The establisment Left had been crushed across most of Europe, just as it was in the early 1930s. We have seen the ultimate crisis of capitalism -- what Marxist-historian Eric Hobsbawm calls the 'dramatic equivalent of the collapse of the Soviet Union' -- yet socialists have completely failed to reap any gain from the seeming vindication of their views. . . continue reading.
