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BRITAIN’S peace movement must step up to stop the government rushing into a “potentially disastrous” war in Syria, the Communist Party’s political committee heard last night.
Ben Chacko told the committee that, despite a lack of evidence to back up claims relating to the alleged chemical weapons attack on Douma, the media were showing “no restraint” — for example, attributing claims of the number of deaths and injuries to the World Health Organisation when the WHO itself said its figures had been provided by rebel groups on the ground.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was right to push for MPs to be given a say on military action, Mr Chacko said, but the outcome of such a vote was far from certain given the number of reckless warmongers on his party’s back benches.
STEVE ANDREW is intrigued by a timely and well-researched book that demonstrates the conflicted history of the central Asian country
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare
While working people face austerity, arms companies enjoy massive government contracts, writes ARTHUR WEST, exposing how politicians exaggerate the Russian threat to justify spending on a sector that has the lowest employment multiplier