General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
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Few, other than feminists, take up the cause of the poorest
Radical feminist BAZILE paints a picture of life in Senegal, where class, patriarchy and religion act to keep women in a state of subordination
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After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The transformation of a stable secular state into a fractured ruin largely ruled by Western-backed fundamentalists exposes the hollow nature of ‘multipolarity’ and the absence of principled anti-imperialism today, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Facing economic turmoil, Jim Callaghan’s government rejected Tony Benn’s alternative economic strategy in favour of cuts that paved the way for Thatcherism — and the cuts-loving Labour of the present era, writes KEITH FLETT
The economic value of disability benefits far outweighs their cost, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
As tensions rise in the Middle East, the role of Iran in the region’s political balance becomes ever more significant. STEVE BISHOP assesses the current situation
BY NOW we ought to have elected our new president — but this has not happened. President Macky Sall has delayed the elections which had been due to take place in February, sparking outcry. During this crisis, we have seen shameful images of uniformed members of our defence and security forces attacking women.
Absa Hane, a journalist, was arrested while working; her male colleagues untroubled. Another woman, supposedly a protester, was manhandled into the back of a black pick-up truck, filmed by mobile phones. In these uncertain times more than ever, the condition of women is a feminist concern.
Nothing can ever be taken for granted, not democracy… certainly not women’s rights. It only takes political crises for rights to be undermined, trampled on or withdrawn.
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