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Zelensky does the anti-corruption dance for the corrupt EU
Turning on his old allies, the Ukrainian leader’s campaign against inequity has still not done enough to impress the EU assessors — but who are they to pass judgement, asks DENNIS BROE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy poses for a photo with soldiers after attending a flag-raising ceremony in the recaptured city of Izium, Ukraine, on September 14, 2022
The public recognise the corrosive influence of the rich over our democracy, argues MIKE COWLEY — it’s a shame the Labour Party doesn’t
JORDAN RIVERA and DEANA BROOKS assess the recently concluded 358-day strike, related disputes at other hospital trusts and lessons for future action
Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
IN THE later part of the 16th century, Henry Navarre, the first French king from the house of Bourbon, wanted to ascend to the throne. Henry was a Huguenot, a Protestant, nearly assassinated in the Saint Bartholomew day bloody massacre of Protestants by Catholics in Paris.
The pope, backed by the Spanish monarchy, opposed Henry’s accession. Henry then decided to convert and when asked why the conversion, is supposed to have shrugged his shoulders and said: “Paris is worth a mass.”
Volodymyr Zelensky desperately wants Ukraine to be accepted into the European Union. However, Ukraine is universally characterised, and perennially ranked, as one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, so Zelensky, in an attempt to further Ukraine’s candidacy, is supposedly cleaning house, proclaiming new reforms that “will change the social reality.”
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