SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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From Step Aside Brother to Step Forward Sister
Through self-organisation, women learn from other women and identify for themselves the barriers to their full participation in our movement. LYNN HENDERSON spotlights her new scheme to encourage women to step forward and get involved
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
by Dr David Lowry, Institute for Resource and Security Studies
This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
A GENERATION ago, Angela Davis writing on women, race and class woke many to what is now described as intersectional oppression.
Without losing sight of class politics, Davis exposed how capitalism, patriarchy and racial inequality historically develop together.
Gendered economic inequality and oppression of women at work remain the dominant structural barriers to working-class advance the world over.
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LYNN HENDERSON reflects on turning 60, tracing her path from 1980s Youth CND and Red Wedge gigs, deindustrialisation and the rise of women trade unionists, to looking at today’s young organisers in Unite Hospitality and Living Rent, who offer hope for the future
With new faces being elected to both to government and to my union, PCS, 2024 has been a year of change – with new challenges ahead for 2025, writes LYNN HENDERSON
In my union PCS, we know from experience that women are the first line of defence during this ongoing period of attacks from the government and employers on our living standards, writes LYNN HENDERSON
PCS senior national officer LYNN HENDERSON explains why the union is growing and taking more industrial action despite the hostility of the current government to workers’ demands
