Reports of fights and sexual assaults among teens volunteering with the Universal National Service have led President Macron to delay making the scheme mandatory
The UK will compel young people to partake in National Service if the Conservatives win the general election, after seeing enthusiasm from other countries with similar schemes, the home secretary has said.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the USSR led Western countries to largely forget Plato’s dictum that he who “desires peace must prepare for war,” that may soon have to change.
The struggle against this overtly fascistic government can only proceed on a Trotskyist perspective for an international struggle against war, for workers power and for socialism.