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The government’s support schemes just aren’t working for women
The Covid crisis, and the inadequate response to it, is deepening inequalities for women at work, says TUC leader FRANCES O’GRADY
Much of the home schooling burden has fallen on women
US baseless accusations of drug trafficking and the outrageous putting of a bounty on a president of a sovereign country do not bode well, reports PABLO MERIGUET
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
Mass mobilisations are forcing governments to seriously consider imposing sanctions and severing ties — even in places like Australia and the Netherlands — despite continued arms shipments to Israel’s war machine, writes RAMZY BAROUD
What we are learning today is that fascism can come to power even when the working class of almost every capitalist nation is very far from achieving revolution, argues DAVID LETHBRIDGE
TONY BURKE explains how an internationally significant breakthrough for workers’ organisation and recognition against two notoriously anti-union global mega corporations has been finally achieved in Canada
ON International Women’s Day we come together to renew our campaign for equality and liberation for women.
No-one expected what happened in 2020. Women have borne the brunt of the Covid-19 crisis on the front line and at home — but at every stage of this pandemic their needs have been overlooked.
A key tool to fight the pandemic is self-isolation after Covid exposure. Yet women find it harder to self-isolate, because many fewer can get decent sick pay.
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