MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
EARLIER this year a motion supporting academic freedom to discuss sex and gender was narrowly defeated by the University and College Union (UCU) at its Higher Education Sector Conference.
At first glance this seems baffling — why would a union representing academics vote against academic freedom?
Indeed, why was it even considered necessary to bring such a motion to conference when support for academic freedom is one of UCU’s core principles?
Professor MARY DAVIS argues that feminism has been hollowed out by liberal co-option – and only a revival of socialist, class-based politics can restore International Working Women’s Day’s original, radical purpose
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
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate
Sisters came together last weekend for the landmark launch of a new women’s group. ROS SITWELL reports


