Transcribing the Past

           La Angla Traduko Thiery: Hello everyone, especially the viewers of EsKu, our now very popular channel about Esperanto culture. If you've discovered this video series for the first time then you can subscribe to our channel using the "subscribe" button below. Having done that, then you will not miss any of our future videos. What is the subject of today's talk Pascal? Your previous two talks, videos 35 and 37 sketched out the development of the Neutral* part of the movement between the First and Second World Wars. I believe you will now go on to explain the development of the Workers Esperanto movement in the same period as you hinted you would at the end of video 37. Pascal: Greetings dear viewers of EsKu. You are right about today's subject Thierry. The interwar period between 1920 and 1940 was a time rich with experiences and changes for both flanks of the Esperanto movement. Allow me to summarize the main parts again, as I'm not c...

  In the immediate aftermath of World War II Mosley and the British Union of Fascists members were released from prison as the threat of a pro Nazi fifth column subsided. Unfortunately the defeat of their patrons Mussolini and Hitler, and the revelations of the Concentration camp system and the Holocaust didn't lead to much repenting. Mosley and a core group of Fascists became active again in the East End hoping to rebuild their movement. Understandably this attempted resurrection was bitterly opposed by the Jewish community. The main source of opposition was the 43 Group, its backbone was Jewish ex servicemen but the group did include civilian men and women and some non Jewish members. Here is an interview with a member of the group followed by a discussion with Professor Nigel Copsey of Teesside University about the post war resurgence of Fascism and the effectiveness of the 43 Group. Transcript of the above video Max Pierson Program Editor: We begin on th...

       Dramatic reading   Link     The Actor and the King (Ret Marut) It seldom happens. Fortunately. Yet once it did occur that an actor chose a king to be his friend. Or perhaps it was the other way round. But in the end it makes no difference. The two of them were honest and sincere friends. They quarrelled and were reconciled, as is generally the custom between true friends. For two years their friendship held. The actor made no more ado about this friendship than he would have done about a friendship with any other mortal. One afternoon they went strolling together in the park. The actor had played a king the evening before. But not a Shakespearean king. The royal patron of the theatre could not endure those. For Shakespeare's kings, notwithstanding their divine right, were quite ordinary men who loved and hated, murdered and reigned - just as it suited their intents and purposes. The part of the king in the play of the p...

  The 1970's were a dangerous time to be politically active in Italy. Neo Fascist paramilitaries were mounting a prolonged bombing campaign killing many. As an extra sting the fascists often posed as left wing guerrilla's in an attempt to provoke and justify an authoritarian crackdown. There were leftist paramilitaries most well known were the Rosa brigades, but they tended to focus on kidnappings and assassinations instead of bombing public buildings and train stations. After one such bombing  Giuseppe Pinelli a local railroad worker and Anarchist activist was arrested in a dragnet. Whilst in police custody he went through a fourth floor window. The police maintained that he accidentally went through the window of his own accord, but the official story was so full of holes an entire play was written debunking it . In 2001 a new investigation found three members of a Neo Fascist group responsible for the bombing that Giuseppe Pinelli had been detained for. So in a...