Decades after Dale Spender’s groundbreaking work on how language embeds male dominance, the struggle to reshape words that accurately reflect women’s experiences remains both vital and unfinished, writes JULIA BARD

It’s myopic to suggest that fascist ideology has been ‘imported’ into Britain and could not possibly be home-grown, argues JULIA BARD

Pro-Palestine Jews don’t need ‘keeping safe’ on our own demos, writes JULIA BARD, following yet another heavy-handed attempt to link religion and ethnicity to political positions by the police

Think knitting is sedate and harmless? JULIA BARD begs to differ – knitting has a long history of radicalism and rebellion

A member of the Islington Friends of Jeremy Corbyn campaign, JULIA BARD, explains its motivation and goals

Thirty-six years ago a new radical Jewish publication was born, leading to a blossoming of Jewish progressive thought. JULIA BARD reports

It is class, not age, that provides socialists with the best lens to view the world – and people from all generations have a part to play, writes JULIA BARD

There has been a tendency to impose a singular interpretation of the Holocaust and the history of Jewish persecution – yet more dynamic interpretations can shine a valuable light on other traumas and oppressions, argues JULIA BARD

JULIA BARD recommends an event showcasing the diversity of Jewish thought and debate in the past and in today’s tumultuous times

JULIA BARD examines the controversy caused by Maggi Hambling’s tribute to a great Enlightenment thinker unveiled earlier this week

Routine ridiculing, degradation and blaming of old people in the cultural mainstream has allowed the government to treat us as collateral damage – but sadly this mean-spirited ageism has infected parts of the left too, writes JULIA BARD

We must not concede to an ideology that belittles older women and makes us invisible in public places, argues JULIA BARD