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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
From Foucault to San Francisco: The enduring roots of queer theory
JEN IZAAKSON explores the post-modern origins of the politics of sexual transgression
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
TODAY queer theory is taught within the humanities as a matter of consensus, but its historical roots half a century ago tend not to be included on the syllabus. How did queer theory come about?
Prior to our contemporary juncture where queer theory and queer politics are almost unquestionable, both were in fact contested throughout the 1980s in what became known as the “sex wars.”
Opposing sides consisted mainly of radical and lesbian feminists who believed sexuality should, like any other topic, be subject to ruthless criticism, and on the other side, proponents of “kink.”
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