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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Rediscovering the role of communist women
The socialist feminist roots of International Women’s Day are often forgotten. MARY DAVIS previews an event that aims to set the record straight
The artist, who has just died, is embedded in the subconscious of the Palestinian people
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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
FOR many years this paper has been at pains to draw attention to the socialist-feminist origins of International Women’s Day.
We need to remind our movement that Clara Zetkin, a communist, played a leading role in initiating the principle of a day dedicated to the liberation of women.
Along with her comrades in the Second International, Zetkin’s aim was both to highlight and celebrate the struggle of working women against their oppression and double exploitation.
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