The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY
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From Step Aside Brother to Step Forward Sister
Through self-organisation, women learn from other women and identify for themselves the barriers to their full participation in our movement. LYNN HENDERSON spotlights her new scheme to encourage women to step forward and get involved
Israel's brutality in Lebanon, combined with efforts to draw the Lebanese government into negotiations, are part of a strategy to delegitimise resistance to occupation and apartheid, argues RAMZY BAROUD
KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement
A landmark UN resolution led by Ghana declares the transatlantic slave trade the gravest crime against humanity — but Western opposition and abstentions reveal enduring resistance to historical accountability, write ISAAC SANEY and JAMES COUNTS EARLY
The new BBC director-general now faces a test of public scrutiny, with his record at McKinsey and lack of newsroom experience under the spotlight, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Cuts are sweeping campuses as cash-strapped universities slash staff and politicians fail to act on a growing funding emergency. VINCE MILLS reports
A GENERATION ago, Angela Davis writing on women, race and class woke many to what is now described as intersectional oppression.
Without losing sight of class politics, Davis exposed how capitalism, patriarchy and racial inequality historically develop together.
Gendered economic inequality and oppression of women at work remain the dominant structural barriers to working-class advance the world over.
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