Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT
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Trump’s USAid crackdown and the new global order
As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
The SNP might dissemble over the meaning of ‘nationalism,’ but it can’t disguise the fact that it is no left-wing party, says ELAINE SMITH
Castro became one of the first leaders to denounce Israeli genocide against Palestinians at the UN, comparing zionist persecution to Nazi crimes while Cuba trained PLO cadres and awarded Arafat state honours, writes PABLO MERIGUET
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
DONALD TRUMP is adding new dimensions to the culture wars that so animate his critics and supporters alike. The more-or-less abolition of USAid has thrown the US’s erstwhile allies in Europe into a tizz.
Over 12,000 USAid staff are due on gardening leave but the uncounted number of locally engaged staff — employed wherever US foreign policy interests are endangered — is possibly larger.
Trump says he wants to purge USAid of the “radical lunatics” running it and his media mouthpiece trotted out a whole series of exotic programmes which offend his sense of what is proper and permissible.
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