DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
Returning women’s liberation to the heart of class politics
A far cry from today’s ‘diversity’ and ‘inclusion’ agenda, International Women’s Day has its origins in the revolutionary labour politics of the early 20th century, SONYA ANDERMAHR reminds us
The proclamation of International Women’s Day in Petrograd, 1917, at the beginning of the February Revolution
JOHN PERRY and FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ unpack the latest propaganda attack on Nicaragua, explaining how a clearly biased, US-backed regime-change NGO used a totally unrepresentative sample and survey methodology to get a ridiculous result
In 1981, towering figure for the British left Tony Benn came a whisker away from victory, laying the way for a wave of left-wing Labour Party members, MPs and activism — all traces of which are now almost entirely purged by Starmer, writes KEITH FLETT
ANDREW MURRAY breaks down this week’s rift in the new left party that was at one point polling at 15 per cent of the vote without even having formed — whether it will form now has been thrown into a pit of doubt
DIANE ABBOTT MP argues we shouldn’t see last week’s march as an inarticulate outpouring of confused class consciousness, arguing that the agenda was set by the stars of the international far right, whose speeches were explicit, extreme and unopposed
BERNADETTE KEAVENEY announces a simplified and streamlined way to get your paper delivered daily, and a big push for new readers that we can all help make into a success
INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day, if the website devoted to it is anything to go by, is akin to a feel-good ad campaign promoting diversity and equality for all who identify as women.
This year’s theme is — hashtag compulsory — #ChooseToChallenge and the blurb on the website runs as follows: “A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions — all day, every day.
“We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality. We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women’s achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.”
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SONYA ANDERMAHR finds a voice worth listening to in the candid account of a trans woman who came to question gender identity politics
SONYA ANDERMAHR admires a candid history of the NHS service and its mistreatment of young people with gender dysphoria
The Star publishes an adapted political statement for the CPB women’s commission by SONYA ANDERMAHR, who argues that the stakes have seldom been higher for women, amid the fightback against the cost-of-living crisis and the defence of their sex-based rights
SONYA ANDERMAHR looks at women’s role in the labour movement past and present
