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Peace means calling for a negotiated settlement in Ukraine
While our leaders want to fight a proxy war against Russia to the last Ukrainian, the masses in the West must take to the streets and demand an end to this appalling conflict, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Mourners at a funeral for a Ukrainian soldier
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
ONE year ago Russian President Putin ordered a massive land invasion of Ukraine, escalating the conflict which had started eight years earlier with the Nato-nationalist coup against the country’s elected president Viktor Yanukovych in Kiev.
During the last year, the likeliest estimate of military casualties on both sides is around 300,000. Civilian casualties are running at around 20,000, with more than 7,000 dead.
Millions have been made refugees and the destruction across Ukraine has been immense, computed in billions of dollars.
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