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Nato leaders crow as Finland and Sweden ask to join warmongers’ alliance

And Biden sends troops back to Somalia

18 May 2022
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Unofficial pay strikes from the Hebrides to Hull

Hull refinery workers also down tools

18 May 2022
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Tens of thousands of nurses leave over Covid and unbearable pressures in the NHS

Pandemic pressures hit hard

18 May 2022
Labour Starmer Palestine
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Labour still soft on Israel after murder of journalist

They justify Israeli crimes

17 May 2022
Stand up to Tory racism
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Resist the Tory government’s racist and repressive agenda

Tories ramp up attacks

17 May 2022
Processing Wheat in Jassapara, Rajasthan
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Deadly heat in India will add to food emergency

India will ban wheat exports

17 May 2022
Police stop and search a black driver in London
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Patel hands cops even more powers as Section 60 stop and search expanded

Move will increase police racism

17 May 2022
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MI5 told spycops to monitor socialists and children

Security services were involved

17 May 2022
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Arm yourself with the arguments—why it’s right to oppose the Russian invasion and Nato

Key articles on the Ukraine war

25 March 2022
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Prepare for a new phase of the war in Ukraine

The imperialist proxy war intensifies

15 May 2022
A Nato military convoy enters Slovakia in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, underlining that the conflict is a proxy war
Alex Callinicos

The conflict in Ukraine is an imperialist proxy war

Not just a national struggle

02 May 2022
Comment

What’s the alternative to Nato intervention in Ukraine?

Hope lies with the anti-war movement

13 March 2022
Kiev, on February 18, 2014.
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Ukraine—the shadow of 2014 on today’s war 

What can we learn from 2014?

12 March 2022

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Bloody Sunday 50: British state murder with Eamonn McCann & Kate Nash

Scunthorpe scaffolders on strike

Striking B&Q worker in Wincanton

300 bus drivers on strike in Oldham

“This strike can win”

Israel bombs Gaza
Features

Palestinian uprising one year on—lessons in resistance against repression

Palestinian activist speaks of his experience

13 May 2022
Protesters from the united front Stand Up To Racism cheer and shout as they confront a demo for the Nazi Tommy Robinson in 2018
Comment

The united front—beating back Nazis with mass action

A tried and tested tactic

14 May 2022
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New pamphlet aids fight against slaver Geffrye

It's part of an anti-racist campaign

16 May 2022

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Rage at Israeli apartheid hits streets of London

Thousands marched after Israeli murder of Shireen Abu Akleh

14 May 2022
Johnson in Northern Ireland
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Getting rid of the Northern Ireland protocol is a big risk for Johnson

Johnson could enrage all sides

16 May 2022
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Queer Britain—the first national LGBT+ museum

Celebrate, explore and reflect

17 May 2022
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Being ‘Culturally British’ lets firm game tax avoidance

Troublemaker looks at the news of the week

17 May 2022
International

US protests to defend abortion rights, solidarity march in London

Supreme Court attack on Roe v Wade

14 May 2022
Five striking agency refuse workers
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Refuse workers in Rugby are ready to keep fighting

Reports from disputes around Britain

17 May 2022
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Betrayals by UCU leaders + Scottish lecturers dig in to win on pay

The UCU leadership is strangling the dispute

16 May 2022
Grannies for the Future
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Letters — We grannies wrecked a council meeting, and we don’t regret it

Action against fossil fuels

17 May 2022
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