TOWARDS the end of 1939, English poet WH Auden called the previous 10 years “a low, dishonest decade”. The 1930s was a dark time, when men with evil intent seized power by playing on fear and prejudice, enabling them to inflame the world, cause tens of millions of deaths and almost destroy civilisation. Today it feels uncomfortably like we’re back in that bleakest of decades. Then, as now, people suffered poverty and job insecurity through the after-effects of a global capitalist crash, nations