Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
A remarkable triumph for popular protest
KATE HUDSON looks back 40 years to a landmark event of the peace movement – with parallels for the world of today
Countering forcefully the threat of global nuclear conflagration
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Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
FORTY years ago, on October 22 1983, CND held the largest demonstration in its history with 400,000 people in Hyde Park.
The reason? West European leaders had decided to deploy new US missiles that would likely lead to nuclear war in Europe. British prime ministers — first Callaghan in 1979, then Thatcher — agreed to take cruise missiles, at Greenham Common and Molesworth bases, from 1983.
The deployment of these missiles — and Pershing missiles elsewhere in western Europe — meant that Europe would be the nuclear battleground in a war between the US and Soviet Union, which seemed ever closer.
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