Unprecedented Second World War Images - 2

The conclusion of the non-aggression pact between Germany and Soviet Russia was a thorough rebuff of England's policy of encirclement. At the signing of the pact in the Kremlin.



England lives in groundless fear of war. Their armaments are of monstrous proportions. Our picture shows the new English anti-aircraft defenses. 




The Berlin-Moscow non-aggression pact was signed by Reich Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and Russian Foreign Minister Molotov.



The conference of Arab representatives convened in London under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Chamberlain. Arabs and Jews negotiate separately.



The Fuhrer receives the cultural ambassador of friendly Japan, Marquis Inouye in Berlin.



Reich Minister Goebbels during his speech at the Culture Rally for the proclamation of the Art Award of the Danzig Gau of the NSDAP.Reich Minister Goebbels during his speech at the Culture Rally for the proclamation of the Art Award of the Danzig Gau of the NSDAP.

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Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937)

         Italian Marxist and social theorist. The son of a minor public official, Gramsci joined the Socialist Party in 1913, but switched to the newly-formed Italian Communist Party in 1921,being recognized as its leader by 1924. He was imprisoned by Mussolini in 1926, and remained incarcerated until his death. In Prison Notebooks (1970), written between 1929 and 1935, Gramsci sought to redress the emphasis within orthodox Marxism on economic or material factors. Rejecting any form of ‘scientific’ determinism, he stressed, through the theory of hegemony, the importance of political and intellectual struggle. Gramsci insisted that bourgeois hegemony could only be challenged at the political and intellectual level, through a ‘counter-hegemonic’ struggle, carried out in the interests of the proletariat and on the basis of socialist principles, values and theories.

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