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A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
OPERATION UNMENTIONABLE
ROB GRIFFITHS remembers the 70th anniversary of Churchill’s bloodthirsty plan to engage Britain and the US in an all-out war with the Soviet Union
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
MATT KERR takes stock of a night of by-elections, where the long repeated warnings for Labour and the political class remain stubbornly unheeded
Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Despite forming most of Britain’s trade union membership, women continue to endure harassment, inequality and minimal support for their sex-based rights, warns VALERIE COULTAS
OF ALL the 70th anniversaries relating to the end of WWII, one has been passed over by the British state in embarrassed silence.
Seventy years ago this week, one of the greatest acts of treachery in history was very nearly committed.
July 1 1945 was the date set for Operation Unthinkable: a deliberate, cold-blooded and unprovoked military attack by the armed forces of Britain and the US on the Soviet Red Army, their erstwhile ally in the newly victorious struggle against Nazi Germany and fascism.
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