Nuclear safety experts warn that sweeping cuts to oversight rules could undermine environmental safeguards as the White House races to bring new reactors online by 2026, says CHAUNCEY K ROBINSON
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Women’s rights and the growth of the far right
There’s no room for feminists to be complacent about the growth of extremism and misogyny worldwide, warns HAILEY MAXWELL
FAR-RIGHT LEADERS: (L-R) Italy’s Giorgia Melon, Germany’s Alice Weidel and France’s Marine Le Pen
Engels’ call for a structured, systematic, critique of capitalism and for a strategy for securing something better remains as relevant today as it did a century and a half ago, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
IT IS difficult to think of how to celebrate International Women’s Day when one of the world’s biggest economic and military powers has been democratically transferred to a cabal of men unapologetic about their history of violence against women and girls.
Donald Trump himself is the first US president to be convicted in court of sexual offences and at his side, the world’s richest man juggles being a dad of 14 and closing off the workplace and healthcare to women and black people in the US and abroad.
It is a hard to call what the White House will do next — an executive order dictating a blanket ban on abortion? Or perhaps a frat party celebrating the homecoming of sex trafficker and misogynist prodigal son Andrew Tate. The only bright side of this state of affairs is perhaps the death of the tired argument that allegations of sexual harassment ruin men’s lives.
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