VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
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
ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been spilt in the Niger Delta since 1958, writes PAVAN KULKANI
ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
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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