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A Marxist feminist approach to violence against women
In order for movements opposed to the injustice of women’s oppression to develop into a revolution, they must be underpinned by political understanding. LAURA BRIGGS explains
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THOUGH the coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate public attention, rising rates of domestic abuse, rape and femicide suggest that women are experiencing a dangerous and deadly pandemic of our own: misogyny.
Men are currently far more likely to be victims of murder than women.
However, data from the Office for National Statistics shows that while the rate of male homicide victims is on the decline, the number of female victims is still rising.
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