State machinery was widely employed to secure favourable outcomes in India’s recent regional elections against three progressive regional governments who dared to challenge Narendra Modi, asserts VIJAY PRASHAD
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The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
As Scotland heads to the polls, the main parties offer variations on the same script, says MATT KERR
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The scale is staggering — as Dawn Butler MP has highlighted, 86 per cent of the government’s spending cuts have fallen on women.
The results are more and more visible: street homelessness is rising disproportionately rapidly among women, the majority of foodbank users are women, and the gender pay gap is over 18 per cent, with women making up almost three-quarters of part-time workers.
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