Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Putting working-class women centre stage
Ahead of this weekend’s Matchwomen’s Festival, LOUISE RAW pays tribute to the struggles of the suffragettes whose stories often get overlooked
Suffragettes protesting outside Bow Street in London
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
YOU won’t have missed the fact that this year is the centenary of some women winning the vote. While it’s marvellous to see women’s history on the agenda, it’s disappointing, too, that it is still not fully integrated into the main historical canon rather than celebrated as a novelty on anniversaries.
Despite the intensity of the current focus on suffrage, we still tend to be fed a rather Pankhurst-centric version of events, so wedded do we remain to the great (and white, and usually middle or upper-class) individuals historical narrative.
Yet years before the formation of the Pankhursts’ Women's Social and Political Union, working-class women — Lancashire mill workers, in particular — were demanding the vote and were prominent in the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies.
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