The Guardian • cold war
What’s happening in Myanmar?
We are given a picture where there is a pure and straightforward struggle happening in Myanmar, between good and evil ...
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Issue #2032
Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis Sixty Years
Sixty years ago during the Cold War the world came close to a nuclear war between the two superpowers of the day, the Soviet Union...
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Issue #2115
Nuclear weapons for a nuclear war
The United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) came into force in 2021. With its preamble on the “catastrophic consequences” of a...
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Issue #2035
Contributions to IMCWP 2022
Editor’s note: The following are contributions from the Iraqi Communist Party and the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) to the International Meeting...
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Issue #2109
GLOBAL BRIEFS
USA: Postal workers are involved in the nation’s largest contract battle, as the American Postal Workers Union (APWU) fights for an improved collective bargaining agreement...
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Issue #2108
NATO Summit beats the drums of war
The 75th anniversary of NATO has concluded. At its recent Summit, Ukraine was top of the agenda, and it is clear that its proxy war...
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Issue #2073
Ideological warriors buckle on their anti-China armour
What prompted Greg Sheridan was a Chinese Communist Party reshuffle. This, in The Australian’s opinion, raises “many questions but few answers as China’s leader embarks...
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Issue #2100
Peace in Ukraine? China’s initiative
Wars always end. How they end is important. China has just announced four principles that would support peace initiatives. This builds on its earlier broad,...
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Issue #2111
New arms race in Europe
The signing of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty between the USA and the Soviet Union, in 1988, was a break in Cold War...
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Issue #2181
Forum on multipolarity and Chinese modernisation
On 21 February David Matters led a forum on Multipolarity and Chinese Modernisation: A synopsis of nation state and class. These distinct concepts are inextricably...
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Issue #2177
The Sandinista Revolution – A Global Latin American History
Nicaragua has the distinction of having had the last communist revolution of the twentieth century. Many English speakers if they think about Nicaragua at all,...
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Issue #2181
Spartacus: Sword, sandals and … anti-McCarthyism?
Although made in 1960, Spartacus is seen as a classic, a cut above the ‘men in togas’ movies of the sword-and-sandals boom of the ’50s...
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Issue #2185
Nuclear deterrent no longer?
Does the ‘nuclear deterrent’ still deter? The latest Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) expired in February 2026. Formal negotiations to renew or replace the treaty...
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Issue #2039
The power of internationalism
27th January marked the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, the agreement which ended the US war on Vietnam. From 1955...
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