After years hidden away, Oldham’s memorial to six local volunteers who died fighting fascism in the Spanish civil war has been restored to public view, marking both a victory for campaigners and a renewed tribute to the town’s proud International Brigade heritage, says ROB HARGREAVES
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Republicans’ rabid anti-communism is a sign of their political weakness
Trump and his supporters are cranking up the McCarthyite rhetoric in a desperate bid to make sure not even one ‘Maga’ loyalist stays home on election day, says CJ ATKINS
While pretending to seek peace, Europe is heading toward a collision course with Russia – using security guarantees, troop deployments, expropriation and censorship as tools, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
Alba party leader KENNY MacASKILL makes some suggestions on how to save our pubs and reduce irresponsible drinking
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Opinion polls point to electoral collapse, parliamentary rebellion and a looming leadership challenge as Starmer’s Labour haemorrhages working-class support and the far right exploits the vacuum left by a hollowed-out party, says NICK WRIGHT
The long-term effects of chemical weapons such as Agent Orange mean that the impact of war lasts well beyond a ceasefire
JOE McCARTHY would have fit right in at this year’s Republican National Convention.
Denouncing communists — both real and, more often than not, imaginary — was bread and butter for the 1950s red-baiting senator from Wisconsin.
At the dawn of the cold war, the bogeyman of the Soviet Union was the stick used to beat back a strong labour movement and a growing left in the United States.
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