October Issue

Photograph courtesy of the author A GRINFUL OF DYNAMITE                                            (Letters to the World)                                                                                                                                 For Les Murray                                                 That round pointed fuse                                     several miles of raw earth in truth                                     you took hands full farmer shovels                                     and slowly that smile lit a grinful of dynamite bonafide stretched ear…

by Bryan Greetham I wanted to examine the claim that fascism was a last-ditch response to a failing capitalism – an attempt to rescue it. One powerful incentive to embrace a radical right party, like the National Socialists, was self-interest. The radical right appealed more to all those social groups…