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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
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As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda
CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China
The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
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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