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US unions to confront Mississippi anti-abortionists
MARK GRUENBERG reports on the widening campaigning of women's organisations against right-wing legal initiatives in Mississippi to courtail women access to abortion on demand
(L to R) The message is loud and clear; supporter Megan Rapinoe
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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
WHEN it comes to defending women’s reproductive rights, there’s no question where the nation’s union women stand: 100 per cent for their sisters and against the mostly male repressive forces who would strip those rights away.
Which is why the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW) and individual unions, including the four largest, joined friend-of-the-court briefs on the side of the Jackson, Mississippi, Women’s Health Organisation as its freedom of reproductive choice case comes to the Supreme Court on December 1.
That day, as the Women’s March prepares to surround the court outside, the justices will hear oral argument on the case pitting the centre, the Magnolia State’s sole abortion-providing clinic, against the state government and its ruling right-wing Republicans referred to as “Grand Old Party” (GOP).
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