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Women are central to fighting the current crisis
As we are heavily concentrated in two of the major areas of industrial struggle in Britain today, we must come together and organise as women, argues ANITA WRIGHT
SUCCESS: Women outside Glasgow council during a 48-hour strike by 8,000 GMB and Unison members for equal pay which ended in victory, 2018
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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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
THE recent wave of strikes and campaigns has seen millions of women rise up and shout loudly that enough is enough.
Consistently having to bear the brunt of successive governments’ vicious anti-working-class policies, women across the country, in their unions and communities, are making their voices heard, demanding fair pay and an end to the cost-of-living crisis.
The government’s only response is to try and gaslight us by saying it’s all down to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, despite their austerity agenda pre-dating the war by over 13 years. They are also trying to undermine union action and democracy itself by bringing in an anti-strike Bill to enforce “minimum service levels.”
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