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Women’s liberation – the struggle continues…
Women have long been to the fore in protest and in the struggle for peace, justice and democratisation at huge risk to their personal safety and freedom, but it’s a battle that’s not yet won, explains CAROL STAVRIS
ONE VOICE: Women's March in Washington DC, US, 2017
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In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
ON International Women’s Day, we take inspiration from women’s long and arduous struggles against racism, for an end to poverty and oppression, for emancipation and for peace in a violent and dangerous imperialist world.
We celebrate feminist movements the world over which have helped to raise political consciousness to the necessity of class unity against the enemy of global capitalism.
The process of industrialisation began in Britain in the 18th century, spreading to other parts of the globe. The crushing exploitation of women workers in sweatshop factories drove them into organising themselves, taking on their employers in powerful struggles which forced economic and social change.
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