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The crucial work that women do is often overlooked
Women’s caring role in society means we end up doing a ‘double day’ whether we like it or not, writes SELMA JAMES
Two supporters of the Women’s Liberation Movement at 10 Downing Street in 1971
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Kate Clark pays tribute to Ricardo, whose life spanned the hopes of Allende’s Chile, the horrors of military dictatorship and decades of campaigning for justice in exile
The electoral cost of Labour’s stance on Gaza is impossible to ignore – the new leadership must take heed, argues PETER LEARY
After the dismissal of union representatives and years of precarious working conditions, Kimpton Clocktower workers are drawing a line, writes THOMAS BELL
Burnham’s Makerfield triumph offers the party the opportunity to reconnect with working people, but only if it rejects business as usual, says CAROL MOCHAN MSP
KIERA MARSHALL says there is a gulf between the privileged circles in which most politicians move and the lives of working-class youth in left-behind estates – and as a newly elected Senedd member she’s determined to do something about it
WHEN the women’s liberation movement began in 1970, groups sprang up all over London and all over Britain.
You would have a meeting and establish some of the things you wanted to discuss but at the next meeting there were twice as many women and you had to go over the same ground again.
So the newcomers were told “form your own group,” and the number of groups doubled and trebled.
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