The new issue of the Austrian art magazine Springerin contains a conversation between Ana Teixeira Pinto and me titled “Surviving Fascist Solidarity.” The German translation is now online; I’ve been told that the original English text will follow at some point. Sadly, some of our analysis only seems to have become more pertinent at a moment when German chancellor Friedrich Merz has stated that Israel is doing the “dirty work” for the West by bombing Iran—a comment that, so far, has failed to trigger massive demonstrations and the kind of backlash that it deserves.

The image accompanying the text is a 1933 photo by Wally Elenbaas, a Rotterdam-based artist who around that time was a member of the Vereeniging van Arbeiders-Fotografen (Association of Worker-Photographers). The image shows the “Fascism Is Murder” slogan which Elenbaas and a group of comrades had painted on the Delftste Poort in Rotterdam. In an act of poetic injustice, the building would be destroyed in the Luftwaffe’s bombardment of the city in 1940.