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
Women’s work and women’s super-exploitation
Let’s reject capitalism’s #EmbraceEquity theme for International Women’s Day and highlight the real issues facing women workers, argues MARY DAVIS
Still not won: an equal pay protest at Downing Street back in 1952
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 Communist Party’s theme for International Women’s Day is “Women’s Work: Women’s Super-exploitation — Wages, Prices & Profits.”
Contrast this with the “official” IWD 2023 theme, which under the aegis of corporate capitalism, now thinks it owns our day.
Each year this anonymous organisation consisting only of a website and in partnership this year with John Deere (the agriculture and construction company) invents a new theme which is suited to commercial interests.
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