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Britain does not need a general election or a general strike. What Britain needs is a general uprising

‘Who Governs Britain?’ was the election slogan embraced by then Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath in 1974, when he called a snap general election with the sole purpose of facing down an increasingly militant and assertive trade union movement, particularly the NUM minters union, at a time of deep economic…

Politics

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Britain does not need a general election or a general strike.
Britain does not need a general election or a general strike.
Politics

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The killing fields of Soledar and Bakhmut — what would Vasily Grossman say?

As only he could, famed Soviet war correspondent Vasily Grossman, himself a son of Ukraine, evoked the brutal and bloody reality of war in his tireless work while following the fortunes of the Red Army on the Eastern Front during WWII. Grossman: The head of the driver of a heavy…

War

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The killing fields of Soledar and Bakhmut — What would Vasily Grossman say?
The killing fields of Soledar and Bakhmut — What would Vasily Grossman say?
War

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The rise of the superrich reveals that greed is winning and humanity losing

The one thing upon which the world’s major religions and most schools of philosophy are agreed are the perils and evil of human greed. Unfortunately, there are some people who didn’t get this particular memo. Take the Waltons, for example, the family behind the Walmart retail empire. According to the…

Economics

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The rise of the superrich reveals that greed is winning and humanity losing
The rise of the superrich reveals that greed is winning and humanity losing
Economics

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Richard Wright, Joe Louis, and America’s racist soul

Few writers understood America’s racist soul as keenly as Richard Wright (pictured above), and few used their pen as mercilessly as he did as a weapon to excoriate and expose it. In black heavyweight champion and ring legend, Joe Louis, Wright found the perfect symbol of black resistance to the…

Sports

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Richard Wright, Joe Louis, and America’s racist soul
Richard Wright, Joe Louis, and America’s racist soul
Sports

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Why when it comes to the Nazi Holocaust, forgetting is not an option

In his epic and comprehensive work, The Second World War, Anthony Beevor writes with customary economy: On 27 January in the middle of the afternoon, a reconnaissance patrol from the 107th Rifle Division (attached to the Red Army’s 60th Army of the 1st Belorussian Front) emerged from a snowbound forest…

History

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Why when it comes to the Nazi Holocaust, forgetting is not an option
Why when it comes to the Nazi Holocaust, forgetting is not an option
History

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19 hours ago

Why the disbandment of NATO is long overdue

The fundamental root cause of the ongoing brutal and tragic conflict in Ukraine is not Russian aggression, it is NATO aggression, reminding us that the latter’s disbandment is a non-negotiable condition of a world in which the triumph of peace and stability over chaos and conflict is at long last…

Nato

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Why the disbandment of NATO is long overdue
Why the disbandment of NATO is long overdue
Nato

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3 days ago

Stand up Winston Churchill — fanatical imperialist and white supremacist combined

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.” So said Oscar Wilde and so describes the life and legacy of Britain’s most famous and revered leader, Winston Churchill, a political giant who wore his racism and imperialism proudly. On, this, the anniversary of his death, let us take a short…

History

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Stand up Winston Churchill — fanatical imperialist and white supremacist combined
Stand up Winston Churchill — fanatical imperialist and white supremacist combined
History

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6 days ago

Tanks, tanks, tanks! Western policy towards the conflict in Ukraine lapses into escalatory madness

The clamour to escalate rather than de-escalate the conflict in Ukraine rather has reached the status of a fine madness in staterooms and the corridors of power in the West. The result is that never has the world come this close to nuclear armageddon since the Cuban Missile Crisis of…

Politics

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Tanks, tanks, tanks! Western policy towards the conflict in Ukraine lapses into escalatory madness
Tanks, tanks, tanks! Western policy towards the conflict in Ukraine lapses into escalatory madness
Politics

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Jan 18

Revisiting the death of Yugoslavia — a crime by any other name

The destruction and disintegration of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, culminating in the 78-day air waged by NATO against Serbia and its people in 1999, during which thousands were killed and wounded, was a crime breathtaking in its open violation of international law and the UN Charter. It was the very…

History

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Revisiting the death of Yugoslavia — a crime by any other name
Revisiting the death of Yugoslavia — a crime by any other name
History

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Jan 16

55 years on from Martin Luther King’s murder, hypocrisy reigns in America

On the 55th anniversary of his assassination, it is hard to think of anyone whose legacy has been so misrepresented as that of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King (MLK) dedicated his life to the pursuit of truth regardless of the consequences, personal or political. Thus, at the time…

History

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55 years on from Martin Luther King’s murder, hypocrisy reigns in America
55 years on from Martin Luther King’s murder, hypocrisy reigns in America
History

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