As Colombia approaches presidential elections next year, the US decision to decertify the country in the war on drugs plays into the hands of its allies on the political right, writes NICK MacWILLIAM
Sisters in solidarity
From Palestine to period poverty, the TUC women’s conference will make strides for justice, writes VICKY KNIGHT
The move against alleged PKK members that sparked outrage as a community centre in north London was raided last year has now come to trial, writes TONY BURKE, but in the meantime, the peace process abroad has changed the situation almost entirely
A new report points a way to overcome complacent framing of climate issues, ‘by sparking a wider public reckoning with climate realities,’ and reconnecting with working-class people. IAN SINCLAIR reports
We cannot understand today’s world without understanding the rise of China – and we cannot understand China without understanding how it was shaped by the second world war, writes JENNY CLEGG
NICK WRIGHT reports from Italy, where 80 cities saw Gaza strikes as unions paralysed transport and massive crowds clashed with police in Milan — but France is also kicking off, and Westminster, in a very different way, is facing a crisis of legitimacy too
Escalating anti-China rhetoric from the West has a clear purpose – to manufacture consent for the new cold war, and potentially a hot one, argues CARLOS MARTINEZ
WE meet at TUC women’s conference this week, in the TUC’s 151st year at Congress House, under the banner of “Solidarity in sisterhood.”
Conference will be chaired by Usdaw’s Su Patel, a longstanding member of the TUC’s women’s committee.
We will both celebrate our achievements and our successes as well as setting our agenda for the women’s movement in the year ahead, the order paper covering issues as diverse as the gender pay gap, maternity provisions, women’s poverty, safety and mental health as well as opposing the far right and the international perspective.
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