The 25th anniversary meeting of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in the Kyrgyz capital may offer a glimmer of hope that international relations do not need to be defined by endless confrontation, writes KENNY COYLE
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Why we need a revived women’s movement today
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
The artist, who has just died, is embedded in the subconscious of the Palestinian people
The five young men killed in the A66 crash were responsible for a devastating tragedy — but the crash should force us to ask difficult questions about wider society, argues RENATA MEDEIROS MIRRA
The unwillingness of the British political elite to acknowledge that we are on the edge of a direct conflict with Russia leaves the peace movement with an urgent and onerous task
Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People’s Rights general secretary GAWAIN LITTLE discusses the impact of the US-Israeli war on the Iranian people and economy
Capitalism has extracted itself from crisis before, argues PRABHAT PATNAIK – but through methods no longer available. So it is turning to authoritarianism, militarism and neocolonialism
THE fact that corporate capitalism has captured and commodified International Women’s Day in the 21st century should not be allowed to obscure the socialist feminist aims and origins of our day 122 years ago.
IWD was founded at the beginning of the last century by a powerful socialist women’s movement. Its aim was to both highlight and celebrate the struggle of working women against oppression and double exploitation.
The issues addressed by the Socialist Women’s conference of 1910 (which established March 8 as IWD), are, apart from women’s suffrage, still with us.
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