IAN LAVERY MP says an immediate focus on raising wages and reducing costs must be part of a strategy to show Labour can deliver for workers again
‘Those involved in progressive politics need to commit to ensuring women’s voices are heard’
HELEN STEEL talks to Jo Bartosch about the violence and threats she’s received from supposed leftwingers for attempting to discuss the issues of sex and gender
Spycops and McLibel campaigner Helen Steel
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
World Peace Council president PALLAB SENGUPTA assesses the challenges facing the international peace movement and sends greetings to the Liberation AGM
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
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
THE word “heathen” was originally reserved for those with views so unpalatable they were cast out onto the heathland, excluded from civilised society.
This etymology came into my mind when I heard about the case of Helen Steel, a seasoned campaigner, who was forced to walk across the moors after being excluded from a protest camp organised by the Land Justice Network (LJN).
Steel is a formidable woman who has more than earned her activist stripes by pressing for environmental, feminist and social justice causes since her teens.
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