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JEREMY CORBYN said transwomen should be allowed places on all-women shortlists today, saying: “The position of the [Labour] party is where you have self-identified as a woman you are treated as a woman.”
The BBC’s Andrew Marr asked about divisions in the party over the issue, pointing to the more than £20,000 raised to campaign for all-women shortlists to be reserved for people born female.
Jennifer James, founder of the crowdfunding campaign, has been suspended from Labour after her name appeared on a Facebook list of alleged transphobes.
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
ROS SITWELL reports from the Morning Star conference on ‘Race, Sex and Class Liberation’ last weekend