Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
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The cold war is back but the USSR is not
The rise of Russia as a belligerent military power has nothing to do with the goals of the Soviet Union — as far-fetched as it may seem right now, we must stick to anti-war, internationalist principle and oppose both Nato and Putin, writes ANDREW MURRAY
A Ukrainian soldier walks past the wreck of a Russian Su-34 bomber in Kharkiv, Ukraine
KEITH FLETT traces how the ‘world’s most successful political party’ has imploded since Thatcher’s fall, from nine leaders in 30 years to losing all 16 English councils, with Reform UK symbolically capturing Peel’s birthplace, Tamworth — but the beast is not dead yet
With turnout plummeting and faith in Parliament collapsing, BERT SCHOUWENBURG explains how radical local government reform — including devolved taxation and removal of party politics from town halls — could restore power to communities currently ignored by profit-obsessed MPs
As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
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Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
RUSSIA’S invasion of Ukraine is shocking. But it is not surprising. If any war has been telegraphed for years in advance it is this one.
Your columnist published a book in 1997 predicting that if a third world war were to break out, it would be in and over Ukraine. Such warnings were not taken seriously, since the world was then basking in the triumph of capitalism and its fraudulent promise of a new world order of peace.
Russia was in a position similar to Germany after the 1919 Versailles peace — diminished, in economic turmoil and treated with scorn by the US.
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Just as German Social Democrats joined the Nazis in singing Deutschland Uber Alles, ANDREW MURRAY observes how Starmer tries to out-Farage Farage with anti-migrant policies — but evidence shows Reform voters come from Tories, not Labour, making this ploy morally bankrupt and politically pointless
