SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
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Why we need a revived women’s movement today
Our strength as women lies in our ability to act as a collective force – rebuilding that unity is now one of our most urgent tasks, argues MARY DAVIS
RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare
KEVIN DONNELLY reports from Monte Faudo and its annual remembrance of the region’s WWII partisan anti-fascist battles
The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
THE fact that corporate capitalism has captured and commodified International Women’s Day in the 21st century should not be allowed to obscure the socialist feminist aims and origins of our day 122 years ago.
IWD was founded at the beginning of the last century by a powerful socialist women’s movement. Its aim was to both highlight and celebrate the struggle of working women against oppression and double exploitation.
The issues addressed by the Socialist Women’s conference of 1910 (which established March 8 as IWD), are, apart from women’s suffrage, still with us.
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