The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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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
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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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