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Red women rally in London
Left parties and women’s organisations come together for a celebration of International Working Women’s Day that is truly international — in its politics, cultural items and cuisine, writes LIZ PAYNE
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
ORGANISED by the Women’s Group of the Co-ordinating Committee of Communist Parties in Britain (CCCPiB), this annual gathering has become a much-valued fixture of the left and progressive calendar.
Its traditional opening rally gives us an opportunity to learn from international speakers more about the struggle of women for peace, equality and justice across the globe and shows how our battle against the oppression and exploitation of women is integrally linked with the fight against global capitalism, imperialism and war.
This year’s theme is “Women and the International Struggle” chosen to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist International (CI). The themes of the CI’s early congresses are, as will be amply demonstrated by both the political and cultural elements of the event, as relevant today as they were in 1919.
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