Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT
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Harlow's Labour hopeful Laura McAlpine with party leader Jeremy Corbyn
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
The SNP might dissemble over the meaning of ‘nationalism,’ but it can’t disguise the fact that it is no left-wing party, says ELAINE SMITH
Castro became one of the first leaders to denounce Israeli genocide against Palestinians at the UN, comparing zionist persecution to Nazi crimes while Cuba trained PLO cadres and awarded Arafat state honours, writes PABLO MERIGUET
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
TOWERING over Harlow town centre and surrounded by 100 CCTV cameras is Terminus House, a 14-storey office block full to the brim with human beings, most of whom have been pushed out of other places and into the self-contained 13 square metre rooms.
The owner block, Caridon Property, claims it delivers a “good service” to tenants sleeping in these dwellings that are far smaller than the average British front room and cost anywhere from between £625 and £800 per month.
It is no surprise that the town – which was built by pioneers after the second world war to provide a better standard of life to inner-city Londoners – is increasingly being considered a dumping ground for London councils to alleviate their own problems.
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