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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The ‘war on woke’ must not be normalised
The Tories' point-blank refusal to acknowledge structural disadvantages by scapegoating ‘the woke agenda’ instead must be resisted wholesale if we want to address racial and social inequality, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Kemi Badenoch MP, the Conservative minister for equalities, said: ‘I don’t care about colonialism,’ and that it made no real impact on people living in colonised areas
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
THE race to replace Boris Johnson as prime minister has descended into a grotesque lurch to the right, with Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak trying their utmost to outdo each other with ever-more divisive, nonsensical and damaging policies.
The two Tory leadership contenders have both outlined tax cuts that would further enrich the wealthy at a time of immense inequality and hardship, and have rolled out Thatcherite union-bashing policies which are so draconian that they prompted threats of a general strike from union leaders.
Yet perhaps most concerning is the concerted “war on woke” that has come to define this race-to-the bottom leadership contest.
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