ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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The Gorbachev years – what went wrong?
KATE CLARK, the Morning Star's Moscow correspondent from 1985, reflects on her tumultuous years covering glasnost and perestroika for our paper
Kate Clark, Morning Star Moscow correspondent
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
IN ALL the fulsome media tributes to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, as the statesman who ended the Cold War, there is one thing missing: there were two sides in that decades-long war.
Gorbachev did his bit, withdrawing troops from eastern Europe and Afghanistan, disbanding the Warsaw Pact — and what did the West do in return? Nothing.
In February 1991, when the Warsaw Pact ceased to exist, did Nato disband? No. Nato started its expansion eastwards in 1999, and by 2004 all the former Warsaw Pact countries were in Nato.
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As Moscow celebrates the 80th anniversary of the Nazi defeat without Western allies in attendance, the EU even sanctions nations choosing to attend, revealing how completely the USSR's sacrifice of 27 million lives has been erased, argues KATE CLARK
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With the current heightened levels of anti-Russian sentiment and the return of the cold war mindset, it is important to understand the history of this region and why it sees itself as Russian, writes KATE CLARK
