Without energy and without a strategic partner, Cuba is currently fighting for its survival. While the population is literally sitting in the dark, the Trump administration is trying to definitively break the socialist project through economic blackmail. What lies ahead for the island, asks MARC VANDEPITTE
Violence against women is ingrained in our ideology
In neo-colonialist countries like Britain and the US, violence which glorifies war as a solution for settling disputes is positively portrayed in the culture of our everyday lives — and the victims are women, writes CAROL STAVRIS
Saturday's giant march in Paris for the elimination of violence against women
A setback for IG Metall at Tesla’s Berlin plant has ignited claims of intimidation and raised fears for the future of collective bargaining and workplace democracy, says TONY BURKE
The question for the media, in the US and across the globe, says ROGER McKENZIE, is will they do their job fearlessly and call Donald Trump out?
A recent Financial Times column on the Iran war exemplifies how the Western elite worldview is more concerned with strategy and power than legality or human life, writes ANDREW MURRAY
STEVE BISHOP considers the prospects for a settlement of the conflict and how the demands of both sides are being viewed
The PM is drawing cautious distance from Donald Trump over Iran – but history suggests Britain’s support may run deeper than it appears, just as it did during the Vietnam war, says KEITH FLETT
TODAY is the United Nations general assembly’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women — this year’s theme “Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape.”
It is a social and political calamity that gender-based violence throughout the world is still so endemic and tenacious.
According to 2019 Home Office statistics, in Britain “one in four women will experience domestic abuse and one in five sexual assault during her lifetime” (this rises to one in three across the world).
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