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Misogynist violence at Speakers’ Corner
Last week a group of feminists assembled at Hyde Park to discuss the implications of changes to gender identity law – but things took a brutal turn when one of the women was punched to the ground. JEN IZAKSON reports
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
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
Last Wednesday, on the evening of September 13, women congregated at Speakers’ Corner in Hyde Park to attend a meeting entitled “What is Gender?”
The actual meeting venue was not advertised because the first venue booked by the organisers had been withdrawn after threats from people who said they intended to “shut down” the “transphobic” event.
A century ago Speakers’ Corner was the site where Suffragettes would meet to debate the laws and rights of the day that concerned women.
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