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The drive to expel feminists from Labour is creating a hostile environment for women
Leaders, and prospective leaders, must take a firm stand in support of open and respectful discussion regarding sex and gender, writes MARK SERWOTKA
The Labour leadership contest has become engulfed in increasingly fraught disagreements over sex and gender
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
THE majority of Labour leadership candidates have signed the Labour Campaign for Trans Rights pledges which among other things label Woman’s Place UK and the LGB Alliance as “hate groups” and then call for their members to be expelled from the party.
These pledges add to a toxic atmosphere of intolerance that is creating a hostile environment for feminists.
This is the ugly face of a debate that has got out of hand. How did we get here?
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