Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH
We cannot allow the far right to reframe what misogyny is
With fascists and their supporters cynically and falsely posing as ‘defenders of women,’ the left must take violence against women seriously and gain a better understanding of women’s oppression, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
(Right) anti-racist protesters in Glasgow and (left) a far-right protester supposedly campaigning against abuse of children
URI WELTMANN reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH
Italian unions are mobilising against rearmament and for wages and investment – but left blunders still leave the ‘post-fascist’ Italian PM looking likely to keep her job, says NICK WRIGHT
New research into mutations in sperm helps us better understand why they occur, while debunking a few myths in the process, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
VIOLENCE against women and girls has now reached epidemic proportions and, to add insult to injury, the far right is using this rising tide of violence to generate civil unrest on a scale unseen in recent years.
The hateful organisations of the right, peddling fear and racism, don’t care about women either. Many are violent, thuggish men, likely to be abusing and bullying women themselves while making false and racist claims that misogyny is exclusive to immigrants and Muslims.
Prior to the shocking murders of the young girls in Southport, very few batted an eyelid at statistics revealing that violence against women and girls has risen by 40 per cent between 2018 and 2023. There was little public outrage at the press exposing the “blow jobs for promotions” scandal across the ambulance service in this country.
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