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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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A US onslaught of unprecedented scale has shattered Venezuelan sovereignty and exposed the fragility of the global South as Washington revives the Monroe Doctrine with overwhelming military force, write VIJAY PRASHAD and CARLOS RON
In a country torn apart by sanctions and ‘electoral warfare,’ the reality is more complex than Western headlines would have us believe, argues MARC VANDEPITTE
ALAN SIMPSON looks at the bigger issues behind Trump’s Venezuelan piracy
From the kidnapping of Maduro in Venezuela to Trump’s annexation plans for Greenland: the US is openly relying on imperialism – and paradoxically strengthening its adversaries in the process, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
ROGER McKENZIE looks at how US doublespeak on the ‘war on drugs’ is used to camouflage its intended grab for of Latin America’s natural resources
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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