Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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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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Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
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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