The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND
Reflections on a lost world of socialism
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to former Moscow correspondent KATE CLARK about her book Twilight of the Soviet Union and what the faults and achievements of the first socialist state can teach us today
DESPITE the best efforts of politicians to patch together a broken Thatcherite consensus, the days of capitalist triumphalism are gone.
Polls show big majorities for a return to public ownership of large sectors of the economy and the soaring inflation of the last two years has brought back demands for price controls.
The “unipolar moment” of US world supremacy ushered in by the collapse of the Soviet Union is past too, with China’s rise met with a new cold war against another Communist Party-led counterpart.
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