Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
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Gorbachev’s resignation as leader of the CPSU 30 years ago marked the beginning of the downfall of the USSR. While the Western nations rejoiced, the peoples of the former union saw the restoration of capitalism of a particularly violent and ruthless kind, writes ROBERT GRIFFITHS
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THIRTY years ago today, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and Ukraine’s parliament ended that country’s status as a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
It was the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.
Five days earlier, a faction in the CPSU leadership had revolted against president Gorbachev’s plans to sign a new union treaty to replace the federal but politically centralised Soviet Union.
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