In a wide-ranging interview, JEREMY CORBYN talks to Ben Chacko about the difficulties the new Prime Minister faces and why he sees no future in Labour
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What is ‘intersectionality?’
Although originally pitched against inequality, intersectionality theory eventually lays the groundwork for 'diversity' to become the watchword of corporate ethics, not a way of uniting oppressed identities against capitalism explains the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
A sharp rise in public-sector investment is required to kick-start the economy, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Burnham’s billions for defence while councils and local services struggle will not deliver the change that Britain’s working-class communities need, says MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS
Millions of elms were wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the 20th century, transforming the landscape forever – yet pockets of hope are keeping this beloved tree alive. MARK SEDDON explains
CARLOS MARTINEZ looks at the facts behind US persecution of Fergie Chambers
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
AN EARLIER Q&A on identity politics argued that there’s a sense in which all politics are to do with identity.
We all have multiple “identities,” some of them in tension. Some — our sex, ethnicity, family background — we’re born with. Others — job, hobbies, parenthood, age — we acquire in life.
Many of us suffer disability of some sort. For each of us, such identities interact to create a whole which is richer and more complex than each of its component parts. No one of them totally defines an individual.
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Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle. ANNA BARRETT reports
Professor MARY DAVIS argues that feminism has been hollowed out by liberal co-option – and only a revival of socialist, class-based politics can restore International Working Women’s Day’s original, radical purpose