A vast US war fleet deployed in the south Caribbean — ostensibly to fight drug-trafficking but widely seen as a push for violent regime change — has sparked international condemnation and bipartisan resistance in the US itself. FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ reports
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‘The only prospect other than victory was slavery – enslavement for generations’
Daniel Powell talks to D-Day veteran JIM RADFORD about that momentous event of the second world war and why he subsequently went on to campaign for the peace movement and against homelessness
Supply landings at Omaha Beach, mid-June 1944
ANSELM ELDERGILL recalls the misjudgments, mishaps and moments of farce that shaped his years in legal practice
MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero — soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation
The Communist Party of Britain’s Congress last month debated a resolution on ending opposition to all nuclear power in light of technological advances and the climate crisis. RICHARD HEBBERT explains why
Amid the festive lights, Scotland faces a stark holiday truth: only real investment in public services and the workers who sustain them can lift communities out of poverty, argues LILIAN MACER
Behind the cute names of Scotland’s road gritters lies a workforce underpaid and overlooked – a fitting reflection of a Budget that protected profits, bungled its rollout and offered hardly a glimmer of hope, writes MATT KERR
AT FIRST glance, the picturesque French coastal town of Arromanches in Normandy is a quiet, peaceful place; yet it holds a remarkable history.
Above its beaches where children play happily building sandcastles in the summer breeze, the coastal clifftops are profoundly indented with shell-battered bunkers, the concrete and steel remnants bearing the scars of a most epic 20th-century event — D-Day, June 6 1944.
As world leaders meet for the 75th anniversary commemorations, French families will warmly fete elderly British veterans gathering at their inns, recalling the town’s longest day.
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