contested terrain

Remembering our dead

Poumista has a great list of links to obituaries to Marek Edelman, who we mourned here, leaving me with nothing left to say. Except what an extraordinary man to be mourned by Trotskyists, Zionists and the US State Department! Here are some of the links: Moshe Arens, Nick Lowles, History is Made at Night, Tim Collard, MJ Rosenberg, the Tomb, Charlie Pottins, ZWord, Jew on this, Rislu, Third Estate, Anne Frank’s Drumkit, Socialist Unity, David Rosenberg… and the US State Department.

History is Made at Night has also posted this in homage: This mandolin kills fascists. This inspired a further post, with a breakbeat version of a Yiddish partisan song by Berlin’s Ruin Gebirk. For more on the song, see here/here.

Steve Cohen, who we mourned here, is commemorated in the latest (now not so recent) edition of New Interventions, the latest (hot off the press) Jewish Socialist, and the last but one (not sure when) Shift magazine. New Interventions, which seems to have no real web presence, so get it from Housmans, publishes a fascinating piece by Steve about the history of antisemitism and anti-alienism in the British labour movement. Jewish Socialist carries a nice appreciation from his comrade Dave Landau, of No One is Illegal – it’s also print-only, so go buy. Shift has two pieces: an obituary, taken from Indymedia London (read the original here: it has a link to me and a reading list), and Steve’s response to the Lebanon war, “Writing as a Jewish traitor“, which we published part of here.

Cross-posted from BfB.

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