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ALAN SIMPSON says responses to the Golders Green attacks risk deepening divides across our country
Capturing the general strikes history is a vital part of our struggles today, posits HENRY FOWLER
On a tumultuous day in Welsh politics DAVID NICHOLSON looks at the key issues for progressives in Wales to grapple with the rise of the far right
ON Remembrance Sunday, Theresa May will lay a wreath at the cenotaph in memory of people killed in war.
This is the same Prime Minister who is happily selling weapons to Saudi Arabia for use against civilians in Yemen.
May’s government is arming despots around the world and ploughing billions into military spending. The Tories’ savage cuts to the welfare state constitute mass violence against the British working class.
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As Britain marks 80 years since defeating fascism, it finds itself in a proxy war against Russia over Ukraine — DANIEL POWELL examines Churchill’s secret plan to attack our Soviet allies in 1945 and traces how Nato expansion, a Western-backed coup and neo-nazi activism contributed to todays' devastating conflict