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The Berlin Wall goes east
With the fall of the wall in 1989, Nato should have been dissolved – instead it moved eastward to Russia’s doorstep, with disastrous consequences that are playing out in the brutal conflict today, writes MARCEL CARTIER
DIVIDED: The west side of the Berlin Wall, pictured in 1986
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In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
THOSE who travel here to Berlin will no doubt not only spot the incredible — or on occasion pretty awful — street art around the city, but also visit at least one of the three surviving sections of the Berlin Wall, the structure that politically divided the city for 28 years between 1961 and 1989.
For some, a visit to the wall is accompanied by a tour of what’s known as the Berlin Wall Museum, right next to Checkpoint Charlie.
If one were to visit this museum, you would emerge from it not necessarily knowing a great deal about the complexities of what led to the building of the wall.
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