Will there ever be peace in Ukraine?
As I write, reports have come in of a Russian rocket having struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine, killing a new-born boy and critically injuring a doctor. Every life lost is a tragedy,…
Writing From the Left, Changing the Conversation
As I write, reports have come in of a Russian rocket having struck the maternity wing of a hospital in eastern Ukraine, killing a new-born boy and critically injuring a doctor. Every life lost is a tragedy,…
Left unity matters. We need to understand what divides us and use the revival of class struggle and public protest to build unity in action.
Perhaps Russia launching a war against Ukraine in the first place was the precursor to the deaths in Poland, but if NATO and the rest of the Western governments are…
Cold war lessons in diplomacy are forgotten as Biden ramps up the temperature of the hot war in Ukraine. What about brokering peace talks?
Gorbachev presided over dramatic changes in Russia. Have all the positives been undone under Putin? And who is to blame?
The myth of a liberal and humane Europe does not always match up to the reality. Truth and lies are part of the story we tell ourselves.
NATO has abandoned the Kurds to ethnic cleansing to keep Turkey onside against Russia. If the defence of Ukraine depends upon sacrificing the Kurds, we are not defending freedom. We…
The myth of a liberal and humane Europe does not always match up to the reality. Truth and lies are part of the story we tell ourselves.
AS the war in Ukraine continues, we heard Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, saying at the weekend that it would only end through diplomacy. Some politicians, notably Jeremy Corbyn, have often…
IT is worrying that two countries with a long history of wartime neutrality – Finland and Sweden – could apply for NATO membership within days. This is of course in…