HENRY FOWLER, assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions (GFTU), reports on Day 2 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
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Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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FIRSTLY it must be said that Russia should be condemned utterly for its brutal attack on Ukraine. However, this does not mean that Nato is an alliance which is to be supported as a defensive peace body.
Nato is a military alliance, which has always been dominated by the United States. The “North Atlantic Treaty Organisation” was formed before the Warsaw Pact.
When the Warsaw Pact collapsed after the fall of the Soviet Union it might have been expected that Nato too would disband. But, of course, the opposite happened.
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