Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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Violence against women is ingrained in our ideology
In neo-colonialist countries like Britain and the US, violence which glorifies war as a solution for settling disputes is positively portrayed in the culture of our everyday lives — and the victims are women, writes CAROL STAVRIS
Saturday's giant march in Paris for the elimination of violence against women
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
TODAY is the United Nations general assembly’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women — this year’s theme “Orange the World: Generation Equality Stands Against Rape.”
It is a social and political calamity that gender-based violence throughout the world is still so endemic and tenacious.
According to 2019 Home Office statistics, in Britain “one in four women will experience domestic abuse and one in five sexual assault during her lifetime” (this rises to one in three across the world).
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