The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
How Salonika became disfigured by anti-semitism
KEVIN OVENDEN charts how the birthplace of the Greek working-class and socialist movement has come to be riven by the far right and rabid nationalist forces
Thessaloniki
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The new Prime Minister must abandon decades of automatic support for US foreign policy, which makes us all less safe, argues DIANE ABBOTT MP
Claims that Nicaragua has abolished elections followed a headline that stripped Daniel Ortega’s remarks of their historical and political context. The full speech tells a different story, says BECCA RENK FOSTER
Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever
MAT COWARD introduces some of the electoral oddballs of the political fringe who remain one of the liveliest features of British democracy, despite efforts to abolish them
by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
THERE is a dreadful symmetry in the desecration of the Holocaust memorial in Greece’s second city, Thessaloniki.
It took place last Sunday, in the week that ends with today’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz.
Its perpetrators were the neonazi Golden Dawn, who, according to its leader, are “the seeds of the defeated army of 1945” — of Hitler’s Third Reich.
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