''Arbeiter und Soldat'' (meaning ''Worker and Soldier'' in English) was a clandestine magazine produced for German soldiers by the French

Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a ...

group

Parti Ouvrier Internationaliste The Internationalist Workers Party (Parti ouvrier internationaliste, POI) was a French Trotskyist party established in 1936 after the exclusion of militant Trotskyists from the French Section of the Workers' International in 1935 and dissolved in 1 ...

during the

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occupation of France. Its editor was a

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...

ish exile from

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named Martin Monath. The publication ardently opposed

fascism Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy an ...

but also refused to extend support to the western Allies, characterising them as

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. Six issues of the paper were published between 1943 and 1944, despite fierce repression of the far-left press by the Milice and Gestapo. In August 2008 the archive of extant issues was republished in English. A new English translation was included in a biography of Martin Monath in October 2019.

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