Robinson successfully defended his school from closure, fought for the unification of the teaching unions, mentored future trade union leaders and transformed teaching at the Marx Memorial Library, writes JOHN FOSTER
The pillars of the post-World War II world are crumbling
A multipolar world is emerging where a number of countries of the global South are now using their growing economic power and political importance to demand reform of the post-WWII order, argues DAVID CAVENDISH
OLD WORLD ORDER: A police helicopter flies near the moon during an annual Nato heads of government summit
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI
At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR
From Gaza protest bans to proscribing Palestine Action, political elites are showing a crisis of confidence as they abandon Roy Jenkins’s apologetic approach for Suella Braverman’s aggressive ‘hate march’ rhetoric, writes PAUL DONOVAN
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’
The summer of 1950 saw Labour abandon further nationalisation while escalating Korean War spending from £2.3m to £4.7m, as the government meekly accepted capitalism’s licence and became Washington’s yes-man, writes JOHN ELLISON
WORLD WAR II ended 80 years ago, in 1945. The war lasted six years, from 1939 to 1945, though some would argue that it really began in 1937 with the Japanese invasion of China. It is indisputable, however, that the war was the deadliest in history.
Tens of millions of people died (estimates as to the number of military and civilian fatalities vary widely), of whom six million were Jews killed in the Holocaust. There was destruction of vast territories in Europe and Asia, with the Soviet Union suffering the greatest losses: around 27 million people died and over 7,000 villages and cities destroyed. And in Japan over 200,000 people — mostly civilians — died in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
By contrast, other than the attack on Pearl Harbour (a military base), the United States suffered virtually no physical damage, fewer than 500,000 military deaths and only several thousand civilian casualties, mainly of US citizens living abroad.
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