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Ukrainian offensive stalls while floods sweep the south

by our Eastern European Affairs correspondent

Fierce fighting rages across Ukraine as the puppet regime launches its much-vaunted spring offensive along the southern front and into the Donbas to try to recapture the recently liberated town of Artyomovsk.

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Fighting fascism in Europe!

by Theo Russell

{We support the victory not of Russia, but of the world against resurgent fascism in Europe.} I represented the NCP and the International Ukraine Anti-Fascist Solidarity campaign, and met comrades and friends at a key-note conference in Moscow on the Ukraine crisis last month.

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Editorial

A slippery slope

Last month an investigative journalist was detained by the counter-terrorism police at Luton Airport. Kit Klarenberg had flown from Belgrade for a home visit when he was arrested and subjected to an intense interrogation over his political views and journalistic output. He had his photo, fingerprints and DNA taken and his bank cards, electronic devices and SD cards seized under Schedule 3 to the Counter-Terrorism and Border Security Act 2019.

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