A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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How we were saved from nuclear disaster
JOHN GREEN looks back at Nato’s 1983 nuclear war exercise Able Archer that almost sparked the real thing
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
A recent catalogue of clashes between Russian military ships and aircraft and Nato forces has raised tensions to the most dangerous levels since the Ukraine crisis blew up.
Even former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachov at the fall of the Berlin Wall celebrations took the opportunity to warn the West about demonising Russia instead of seeking negotiated settlements.
The people of Europe are once again sleepwalking into a new cold war that can very easily slip into a hot one by accident or design.
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