Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
Latest editorial
Women to take the battle for state pension equality to Hyde Park
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
A RALLY will take place in London’s Hyde Park on October 10 at noon to protest at the government’s refusal to change its plan to raise the pension age for women and to mobilise support in the campaign to defend women penalised by the changes.
Backto60, along with other campaign groups like Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi), argues against the inequality and unfair treatment of women born in the 1950s who have experienced changes to their state pension age.
The rise in the pension age from 60 to 65 and then 66 for women was far more drastic than for men, who faced a one-year rise in 2020, compared with a six-year rise for women.
Similar stories
Women’s fight against violence and legal erosion is central to building a democratic and just Iraq, says Dr SALMA SAADAWI
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
Susan Galloway talks to ASH REGAN MSP about her “Unbuyable” Bill, seeking to tackle the commercial sexual exploitation of women in Scotland