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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
It's no time to take heed of the tin-pot generals
JEREMY CORBYN says the West is in no place to take the moral high ground over Ukraine's crisis
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by Weyman Bennett and Maz’s family
The International Court of Justice has delivered its clearest ruling yet that the right to strike is protected under international law, write Professor TONIA NOVITZ, Professor KEITH EWING and Lord JOHN HENDY KC
Emergency phone alerts could help Britain respond to rising wildfire risk, but Australia’s experience suggests they work best as part of a broader strategy, write ELLIOT CONVERY-FISHER and KATE PARKINS
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
In Parliament yesterday there were a number of tin-pot generals using the opportunity of the Ukrainian crisis to insist that Britain should rapidly and exponentially increase military expenditure.
But as with all international crises, it's important to recognise the history lurking behind the drama.
Ukraine's national borders have ebbed and flowed with the tides of history, from being the original heartland of Russian civilisation, expanding under Moscow's rule during the tsarist era and becoming part of the Soviet Union after 1917.
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