JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
‘A most anti-woman framework unlike anything which has gone before’
Former Raj Sabha member BRINDA KARAT of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which played a leading role in last year’s three million-strong Kerala women’s wall, tells the Star about the huge challenges in the fight against misogyny in Uttar Pradesh and beyond
SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE: Communist politician Brinda Karat and the extraordinary women’s protest wall from last year, which stretched for 385 miles
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SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionised in a historic victory for labour, says RIO YAMAT
Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
THIS year we have seen shocking rapes and murders of dalit women take place in Uttar Pradesh. Are violent crimes against women such as rape becoming more common in India?
In India, in 2019 on an average every day 88 women were raped, of whom 10 were dalit.
While the National Crimes Research Bureau report 2019 reports that there were 32,034 registered cases of rape — a 7 per cent increase over the previous year — it also reports that the conviction rates remain dismal, with just 27 convictions for every 100 cases.
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