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Boris Johnson with British troops stationed in Estonia in December 2019
CAMPAIGNERS are demanding that Nato cancel a “dangerous and irresponsible” mass military exercise involving thousands of troops on Russia’s borders due to the coronavirus threat.
Stop the War has urged the government to pull British troops out of the US-led Defender Europe 20 exercise, the biggest deployment of US soldiers on the continent for 25 years.
The Pentagon announced on Monday that the operation would be scaled back in “size and scope” in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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
In the first half of a two-part article, PETER MERTENS looks at how Nato’s €800 billion ‘Readiness 2030’ plan serves Washington’s pivot to the Pacific, forcing Europeans to dismantle social security and slash pensions to fund it
While working people face austerity, arms companies enjoy massive government contracts, writes ARTHUR WEST, exposing how politicians exaggerate the Russian threat to justify spending on a sector that has the lowest employment multiplier
Real security comes from having a secure base at home — Keir Starmer’s reckless and renegade decision to get Britain deeper into the proxy war against Russia is as dangerous as it is wasteful, writes SALLY SPIERS