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Choosing Victory

By: Alex Niven

After a period of disillusion and fracture, the Left urgently needs to come together again — channeling a new spirit of populist, anti-fascist militancy taking inspiration from the past.

Crowds celebrating the end of the Second World War, 8 May 1945

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‘Put war away with time, come into space.’ So wrote Charles Olson in 1946, in a poem which hinted that we should remember the dead of war — in his case, the masses of ‘unburied dead’ of the Second World War — only in order to make a better, more freeing life for the ‘new born’ following […]

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‘Put war away with time, come into space.’ So wrote Charles Olson in 1946, in a poem which hinted that we should remember the dead of war — in his case, the masses of ‘unburied dead’ of the Second World War — only in order to make a better, more freeing life for the ‘new born’ following […]

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‘Put war away with time, come into space.’ So wrote Charles Olson in 1946, in a poem which hinted that we should remember the dead of war — in his case, the masses of ‘unburied dead’ of the Second World War — only in order to make a better, more freeing life for the ‘new born’ following […]

‘Put war away with time, come into space.’ So wrote Charles Olson in 1946, in a poem which hinted that we should remember the dead of war — in his case, the masses of ‘unburied dead’ of the Second World War — only in order to make a better, more freeing life for the ‘new born’ following […]

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