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Issue #1958

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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IPAN Conference 2024 – Sleepwalking into War? – October 4-6 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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Global briefs 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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Communist hammer and sickle on red star. 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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A woman covers her son with a blanket after fleeing the war from neighbouring Ukraine at the border crossing in Medyka, southeastern Poland. 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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Land to air long range missile being fired 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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The Sandinista Revolution cover 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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Hiroshima Never Again rally in Sydney 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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