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International Women's Day 2025 / 8 March 2025
8 March 2025
Women’s hard-fought-for rights are facing sustained and serious ideological attack. Let this International Women’s Day be a call to arms, says Professor MARY DAVIS
Candles
Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 / 27 January 2025
27 January 2025
The proponents and enablers of Holocaust distortion and anti-communism now have increasing political power and influence in a number of European countries, obstructing an understanding of the reality of fascism’s crimes, warns MARY DAVIS
Zinoviev letter
Features / 29 October 2024
29 October 2024
The infamous forged missive exposed how the Establishment worked to discredit Labour despite its loudly declared anti-communist stance, writes MARY DAVIS, analysing the 1924 government’s destruction
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International Women's Day 2024 / 8 March 2024
8 March 2024
Despite some steps forward for women’s rights, the tasks ahead remain daunting as in many parts of the world these rights are being eroded and the clock is being turned back, argues MARY DAVIS
Lenin
Features / 20 January 2024
20 January 2024
MARY DAVIS examines Lenin’s contribution to Marxist theory and practice and how it relates to the great events of 1917
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Books Review / 2 November 2023
2 November 2023
MARY DAVIS recommends a timely exploration of the relationship between sex, gender and gender identity
Equal pay
Features / 6 March 2023
6 March 2023
Let’s reject capitalism’s #EmbraceEquity theme for International Women’s Day and highlight the real issues facing women workers, argues MARY DAVIS
BARBARITY: ‘Selection’ of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at
Features / 26 January 2023
26 January 2023
A remarkable book tells the story of the first Jews to escape from the now-infamous Nazi death camp – but at that time most Jews of Europe had no idea of the horrors taking place behind the barbed wire, explains MARY DAVIS
Women sky
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2022 / 8 March 2022
8 March 2022
Our strength as women lies in our ability to act as a collective force – rebuilding that unity is now one of our most urgent tasks, argues MARY DAVIS
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Book Review / 4 February 2022
4 February 2022
This is an important book dealing with an important subject of critical concern to all labour movement activists, writes MARY DAVIS
Auschwitz
Features / 26 January 2022
26 January 2022
On Holocaust Memorial Day, Professor MARY DAVIS explains the particular significance of Auschwitz and the need to guard against historical revisionism
Truth Marx Hegel
Features / 5 December 2021
5 December 2021
Marxist historian MARY DAVIS responds to recent articles on science and society, and counters the idea that ‘facts are the product of human minds’
Discrimination protest
Features / 16 October 2021
16 October 2021
The building of a broad-based women’s movement and a strengthened labour movement must go hand in hand, argues MARY DAVIS
Sisterhood, Socialism and Struggle
Features / 5 May 2021
5 May 2021
MARY DAVIS invites readers to join the Sisterhood, Socialism and Struggle event this weekend where a Marxist feminist analysis will be centre stage
Woman cleaning
Opinion / 8 March 2021
8 March 2021
Women’s rights are under assault on a number of fronts – and organised struggle remains our best weapon against the corporate agenda, says PROF MARY DAVIS
International women's strike in Montevideo (Uruguay), on 8 M
Features / 11 December 2020
11 December 2020
MARY DAVIS previews a Communist Party conference in January that will address some of the most pressing challenges facing women today
Peasant Woman Cooking by a Fireplace
Engels 200 / 27 November 2020
27 November 2020
The Star publishes here an abridged version of Engels Memorial Lecture given by PROFESSOR MARY DAVIS at the Marx Memorial Library earlier this week
CP flag & Centenary Book
Features / 13 November 2020
13 November 2020
MARY DAVIS previews a new history of the CP and its many struggles over the decades
Communists at Cable Street
Features / 3 October 2020
3 October 2020
You can’t write the CP out of history, says MARY DAVIS
Features / 6 March 2020
6 March 2020
The socialist feminist roots of International Women’s Day are often forgotten. MARY DAVIS previews an event that aims to set the record straight
SO Davies
Features / 19 January 2020
19 January 2020
MARY DAVIS reviews a new biography of an outstanding socialist MP and militant trade unionist
Women's Day Petrograd 1917
Books Review / 2 September 2019
2 September 2019
MARY DAVIS recommends a book revealing the indispensable – and frequently ignored – role played by women in the Bolshevik Revolution
Clara Zetkin
International Women's Day / 8 March 2019
8 March 2019
MARY DAVIS explains the Communist Party of Britain’s understanding of the difference between oppression and discrimination and why it opposes the rise of individualist identity politics as harmful to the women’s movement and beyond
Max Levitas
Features / 16 November 2018
16 November 2018
MARY DAVIS pays tribute to a legendary anti-fascist fighter who died on November 2, aged 103