There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
The women of Kurdistan stand in solidarity with the women of Ireland – and call for a Yes vote to Repeal the 8th
Kurdish resistance fighters talk to ROSA GILBERT about how international solidarity bolsters women’s struggle against capitalism and patriarchy
Commanders in the International Freedom Battalion, Imira (left) and Bilhak (right), Showing solidarity with Irish women
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
AS Ireland prepares for its referendum tomorrow on the constitutional amendment prohibiting free, safe, legal abortion, women and health workers in Rojava have expressed their solidarity with Irish women’s right to choose.
With the exception of the Vatican state and Malta, Ireland has the most restrictive abortion laws in Europe and exceeds Saudi Arabia and Qatar in its restrictions on women’s rights to basic reproductive health.
Since Syria has similar restrictions to Ireland, I interviewed a number of activists, revolutionaries and healthcare workers in Rojava, the autonomous Kurdish region of northern Syria, where abortion is now accessible thanks to the revolution.
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