HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources
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Women must build a cross-industry anti-austerity alliance
From education to care sector struggles, Scotland’s women workers must build up a resistance network on all fronts and drive their unions’ demands for transformative change to victory, writes STEPHANIE MARTIN
CJ ATKINS reports on the stand that saw Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif hauled out of Israel’s parliament during Donald Trump’s vainglorious address
ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in
The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN
MORNING STAR readers are acutely aware of the ways in which capitalism is sustained by the oppression of women. Women’s oppression has intensified in recent years.
We have witnessed a wholesale erosion of women’s rights as the US and Nato-backed genocide in Gaza tears apart the lives and bodies of Palestinian women and children. The National Police Chiefs Council has declared the levels of male violence towards women and girls a “national emergency,” and the reversal of Roe v Wade has seen reproductive rights heavily restricted in some parts of the US.
Furthermore, the Covid-19 Inquiry shows the disproportionate impact that the virus and lockdown measures had on Scotland’s lowest-paid workers, who STUC general secretary Roz Foyer says were “killed by their class.”
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