NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights
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HS2: the great property robbery
The stifling power of property rights blocks the track to modernisation in Britain, writes ANDREW MURRAY
A train passes the HS2 construction site in Euston, London
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families
As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. On the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country
With violence against women and girls reaching unprecedented levels – particularly in the north of England – Unison North West is driving a union-wide push for education, prevention and trauma-informed support, writes JOANNE MOORCROFT
Amid national economic decay and with a lack of coherent left-wing responses, far-right narratives on women’s safety and immigration have taken root in former Labour heartlands. The WOMEN’S LIBERATION ALLIANCE warns that only a renewed politics rooted in an understanding of class, race and sex can stem the rise of authoritarianism
CONTEMPLATING the sad stump of HS2 — as this is written the cancellation of its remaining northern leg looks inevitable — I recall a conversation I had with the great Marxist economist David Harvey a few years ago.
He was describing how he would visit a district in China and find it more-or-less a wilderness and then return maybe four years later to see it full of factories, housing developments and the most modern infrastructure, including high-speed rail lines.
I asked how the Chinese government was able to accomplish this and his answer stuck with me: “Property rights are not a problem.”
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