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THOUSANDS of protesters will descend on Newport in south Wales today making a stand against next week’s two-day Nato summit.
Organisers claim the protests could be the largest in Wales for a decade and thousands of additional police officers have been drafted in from forces across Britain.
Earlier this year the Morning Star reported that the Police Federation had briefed members that up to 10,000 officers were going to be deployed for the summit at a predicted cost of millions of pounds to the public purse.
Western nations’ increasingly aggressive stance is not prompted by any increase in security threats against these countries — rather, it is caused by a desire to bring about regime changes against governments that pose a threat to the hegemony of imperialism, writes PRABHAT PATNAIK
While 69 per cent of Ukrainians want negotiated peace, Western leaders are cynically prolonging the war for their own strategic and economic goals, to the immense detriment of Ukraine and Europe, write BOB ORAM and MAGGIE SIMPSON
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare