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Canada’s disgrace: parliament’s Nazi celebration cannot be forgotten or forgiven
DAN ROSS, a community activist and Communist Party member based in Manchester, discusses why the Canadian parliament knew exactly what it was doing when it praised a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, and why it matters
Zelensky and Trudeau cheer Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, last Friday
Growing instability in the US economy and financial markets could have serious consequences worldwide because of the central role of the US dollar and financial system, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Despite Andy Burnham’s declaration defending the continued partition of the island, all major international and internal trends are converging to make Irish reunification inevitable
Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’ – and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Growing instability in the US economy and financial markets could have serious consequences worldwide because of the central role of the US dollar and financial system, argues MICHAEL BURKE
From Margate to Deal, mining memories are being kept alive. National co-ordinator for General Strike 100, HENRY FOWLER continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations in the Garden of England
THE Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Anthony Rota, has issued a quiet statement apologising for his astonishing praise for 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament last week.
Hundreds of Canadian MPs gave not one but two standing ovations to Hunka, a Canadian-Ukrainian veteran of the Nazi Waffen-SS Galizien division during the second world war (euphemistically described by AP News and others as the “First Ukrainian Division”).
Hundreds of Canadian MPs, including the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, gleefully smiling and applauding was a chilling spectacle.
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