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Lessons from history for women’s liberation
RON JACOBS points out that it wasn’t until anti-imperialist and anti-racist movements formed women’s liberation groups that the fundamental roots of oppression could be addressed.
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Sinophobia unmasked: The racism pandemic
In the shadow of Covid-19, bigotry paints the Chinese identity as synonymous with disease and subversion—discriminatory policies, from visa restrictions to TikTok bans, have been ramped up ever since, writes FIONA SIM.
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Queen Anne’s Bounty: the Church of England struggles with its slavery connections
The paltry new fund embraced by the Church of England is nowhere near what real justice demands: handing over the estimated £1.3 billion derived from trafficked Africans to their descendants, explains STEVE CUSHION.
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Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception
Greenland, part of Denmark, was a colony until 1953, after which it became a province of the Scandinavian country.
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Rochdale has shown what can be done
Sunak’s quivering, late-night address, expressing dire concerns over George Galloway’s win in Rochdale, unveils a profound unease within the elite—good. Now let’s build from here, writes ANDREW MURRAY.
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Growth is not good: the great GDP myth
It’s not some question of being realistic yet effective over being compassionate but economically incompetent: there is absolutely no material basis to continue to measure societies by their GDP, explains BERT SCHOUWENBURG
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Galloway sweeps to victory in Rochdale in vote ‘for Gaza’
Triumphant George Galloway told Sir Keir Starmer “this is for Gaza” after sweeping to a sensational victory in the Rochdale by-election.
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Defending materialism: Lenin the philosopher
NICK MATTHEWS looks at the great Bolshevik leader’s intense three-week period of furious study in the British Library in 1908 and the timeless classic on Marxism and philosophy it produced: Materialism and Empirio-Criticism.
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By deliberately derailing the Gaza vote, Starmer shames democracy and betrays humanity
Wednesday was a day of shame for the House of Commons. Few powers around the world are more important in supporting Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians of Gaza than Britain.
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U.S’.s extradition of Assange is politically motivated and illegal, High Court hears
The final trial against sending the Wikileaks founder and journalist, who was too unwell to attend court or even participate by video link, to the U.S. began today.
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Rebellion over Gaza: the British left strikes back
The protest movement that has exploded onto the streets and inside the Labour Party in response to British complicity with Israel’s crimes is not a distraction from class politics—it’s the way forward, writes Kevin Ovenden.
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Climate activists party around burning ‘your future’ sign as Shell announces 28 billion in profits
Greenpeace campaigners said that the oil group should pay some of its profits into a fund agreed upon at Cop28 climate talks last month to help pay for loss and damage caused by climate change.
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Cuba’s support goes far beyond mere words
TARIQ ANDERSON charts the support Cuba has been offering to Palestine and Palestinians since Che’s visit to Gaza in 1959.
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A hundred years since we lost Comrade Lenin
What does Lenin say to us in today’s post-Soviet world and what is his legacy, asks VIJAY PRASHAD. VLADIMIR ILYICH ULANOV
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Britain condemned for launching ‘largest raid so far on Yemen’
‘The violent repercussions of Israel’s war on Gaza are spreading across the Middle East, threatening a much wider conflict,’ Stop the War says.
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Beijing will be quietly pleased with the decline of Taiwan’s separatist vote
It is almost unanimous, then. Most Western media have given us the lowdown.
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In Xi Jinping’s China, is Chairman Mao back?
On the 130th anniversary of the founder of People’s China’s birth, BEN CHACKO asks whether media hype about Xi as a new Mao rings true – or whether the country’s trajectory has really changed that much.
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We need to act fast to stop the situation in Gaza from triggering a wider war in the Middle East
The danger signals of a wider war breaking out in the Middle East are now flashing red.
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Stuttering economy betrays ever-present crisis in capitalism
WHEN an economy shrinks, as did the British economy last month, it triggers an alarm bell to all those who live not by their labour but by ours.
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Cop28: Elite politics won’t save the planet
If you’re a monarch, president or oil industry big shot the floor is yours at Cop28—there’s little to no input from those that actually feel the effects of climate change, warns RICHARD HEBBERT