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Testament of Youth is based on Vera Brittain’s remarkable First World War memoir. Published in 1933 and covering the years 1900 to 1925, it is an account of falling in love, coming of age and devastating wartime loss. Vera lost her brother Edward, her fiancé Roland Leighton and close friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow....

On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Tom Kay examines how anti-Semitism used by the German ruling class as a weapon against the workers' movement escalated into genocide.

The opening of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw represents a milestone in confronting both the country's history and present day anti-Semitism, writes Andy Zebrowski.

Esther Brunstein is a survivor of the Holocaust. She spoke to Miriam Scharf about her socialist roots and the need to continue the fight against fascism.

Despite slashing public spending, the coalition's economic medicine has failed. Now the economy is taking another turn for the worse.

Author Jon Robins spoke to Matt Foot about the decades old campaign to clear the name of a man wrongly jailed for robbery in 1970.

The coalition government has unveiled new laws that target Muslims, while across Europe there is growing Islamophobia. But our movement can resist this onslaught, argues Hassan Mahamdallie.

Channel 4’s new cross-channel series consists of three strands showing across Channel 4, E4 and 4oD — Cucumber, Banana and Tofu. The titles are references to states of male sexual arousal. This is a return to Queer As Folk territory — the taboo-breaking 1999 TV series — and none the worse for that. Tofu is...

Left wing philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s latest book, Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism, combines his usual blend of cultural analysis, jokes, philosophy and commentary. In the author’s words, he jumps from “our debt-driven economy to the struggle for the control of cyberspace, from the impasses of the Arab...

This is a collection of subversive short stories, the most notorious being The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher which the Daily Telegraph refused to publish despite paying a substantial sum for it. Some Tories called author Hilary Mantel “sick and deranged” now a row has erupted at Radio 4’s plans to broadcast the short stories. Mantel...

This excellent book looks at the state of the Tibetan Plateau and the effects of climate change. It paints a very worrying picture. Global warming will have a dramatic effect on the plateau. Equally, the changes already occurring, both through climate change and rapid development, are going to have an immediate impact for the half...

To mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the BBC is showing a dramatisation of the trial of Adolf Eichmann.