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The Great War part III: a popular war?
PublishedWas the declaration of war was met with enthusiasm across Europe? How were over 50,000 British soldiers killed or wounded in one day in the Battle of the Somme? Was Germany defeated or 'stabbed in the back' by liberals and communists? Find out in the third part of Chris Bambery's straight-talking series on WWI.
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The case for YES in under five minutes
PublishedJonathon Shafi, a leading activist in the Radical Independence Campaign, argues for a YES vote in this powerful short video.
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The Great War Part II: Empires & Ambitions
PublishedChris Bambery examines the balance of power and state of liberalism in the run up to the First World War.
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Planned Atlantic free-trade utopia reveals EU’s rotten core
PublishedFollowing the rise of far-right Eurosceptic parties in Europe, there is a natural impulse to defend European integration against bigotry and chauvinism. However, as the entirely undemocratic scheming to create a free-trade bloc around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) makes once more abundantly clear, a left critique of the unreformable EU is indispensable.