The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Why attempts to conflate nazism with communism should set alarm bells ringing
The EU parliamentary vote in favour of historical revisionism is of importance to us all, writes PHIL KATZ
The Motherland Calls, a monument to the Red Army's victory over the Wehrmacht at Stalingrad, the turning point of World War II
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
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The Prague Declaration had been initiated by former Czech president Vaclav Havel in 2008 but has changed its title a bewildering number of times.
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