JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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Women’s rights and the growth of the far right
There’s no room for feminists to be complacent about the growth of extremism and misogyny worldwide, warns HAILEY MAXWELL
FAR-RIGHT LEADERS: (L-R) Italy’s Giorgia Melon, Germany’s Alice Weidel and France’s Marine Le Pen
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
IT IS difficult to think of how to celebrate International Women’s Day when one of the world’s biggest economic and military powers has been democratically transferred to a cabal of men unapologetic about their history of violence against women and girls.
Donald Trump himself is the first US president to be convicted in court of sexual offences and at his side, the world’s richest man juggles being a dad of 14 and closing off the workplace and healthcare to women and black people in the US and abroad.
It is a hard to call what the White House will do next — an executive order dictating a blanket ban on abortion? Or perhaps a frat party celebrating the homecoming of sex trafficker and misogynist prodigal son Andrew Tate. The only bright side of this state of affairs is perhaps the death of the tired argument that allegations of sexual harassment ruin men’s lives.
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