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The day Canadian parliamentarians spat on the graves of the WWII dead
The Western Establishment has a warped and shameful history of sympathy with fascism, warns JOHN WIGHT
The Speaker of Canada's House of Commons Anthony Rota delivers a speech following an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
The SNP might dissemble over the meaning of ‘nationalism,’ but it can’t disguise the fact that it is no left-wing party, says ELAINE SMITH
Castro became one of the first leaders to denounce Israeli genocide against Palestinians at the UN, comparing zionist persecution to Nazi crimes while Cuba trained PLO cadres and awarded Arafat state honours, writes PABLO MERIGUET
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
THE conflict in Ukraine is in microcosm a continuation of World War II, in that it has exposed the extent to which Western ideologues are willing to collude with open Nazis and fascists in service to the rabid Russophobia that has over generations developed deep cultural roots in the corridors of power west of the Vistula.
It should not be forgotten that right up until Hitler’s annexation of Czechoslovakia, Hitler and Mussolini were viewed by a section of the ruling classes in France, Britain and the United States not as adversaries but as allies in the “noble struggle” being waged by big business and their political bag carriers against the rising tide of communism and its growing traction among their own workers.
In Britain sympathy with the Nazis and their barbarous ideology extended all the way into Buckingham Palace, where Hitler enjoyed the support of King Edward VIII and his US wife, Wallis Simpson, prior to and after the former was forced to abdicate the throne over the fact that Simpson was a divorcee and thereby, following the tradition of the day, deemed unsuitable as a king’s consort.
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