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MATCHWOMEN’S strike campaigners blasted Sir Keir Starmer today after he celebrated the anniversary of a victory by one of Victorian London’s worst employers.
The Labour leader sparked the backlash by posting an image on Twitter of women workers at the Bryant and May match factory in Bow 150 years ago.
Sir Keir said the image showing workers marching to Parliament against a proposed tax on matches and, “through collective action, they won.”
Through marches, music, schools and political debate, campaigners in Tower Hamlets are using the 90th anniversary of Cable Street to inspire resistance to modern racism. GLYN ROBBINS explains
Gisele Pelicot said ‘shame must change sides.’ We may think we agree, but, argues LOUISE RAW, society still has some way to go
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER