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Why every feminist should be a socialist and why every socialist needs to be a feminist
The building of a broad-based women’s movement and a strengthened labour movement must go hand in hand, argues MARY DAVIS
Women taking part in an all-night vigil in Whitehall in 1973 calling for sex-based rights
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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THE unrelenting ideological onslaught on women’s sex-based rights has escalated to the point at which the very definition of “women” as a biological sex is now subject to sustained attack.
This has resulted in the collective rights of women threatened and undermined. The overused term “cancel culture” is wrong and inadequate to describe the current and unparalleled ideological onslaught on women as a biological sex. We are facing erasure in the face of gender identity policy capture.
This “erasure” of women is of special concern at present. The effect of the pandemic has had a disproportionate impact on women, both globally and domestically.
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