BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
Women’s work and women’s super-exploitation
Let’s reject capitalism’s #EmbraceEquity theme for International Women’s Day and highlight the real issues facing women workers, argues MARY DAVIS
Still not won: an equal pay protest at Downing Street back in 1952
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal
The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY
THE Communist Party’s theme for International Women’s Day is “Women’s Work: Women’s Super-exploitation — Wages, Prices & Profits.”
Contrast this with the “official” IWD 2023 theme, which under the aegis of corporate capitalism, now thinks it owns our day.
Each year this anonymous organisation consisting only of a website and in partnership this year with John Deere (the agriculture and construction company) invents a new theme which is suited to commercial interests.
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