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Woman, Life, Freedom: two years of defiance in Iran
Iran’s women’s rights movement now joins widespread unrest, as pensioners, steelworkers and students unite against corruption, repression and economic mismanagement by the theocratic regime, writes STEVE BISHOP
Kurdish women in Beirut, Lebanon, protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, October 2022
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
THIS weekend marks the second anniversary of the murder in custody of 22-year-old-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, at the hands of the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The murder of Amini gave rise to the Woman, Life, Freedom movement which has swept across Iran for the past two years and challenged the orthodoxy of theocratic dictatorship, which has gripped Iran for over 40 years.
Following the death in custody of Amini in September 2022, detained for allegedly not following oppressive hijab rules, protests took place across all regions in Iran. Demonstrations of opposition to the regime extended beyond the major cities and into the traditionally more conservative small towns and countryside areas.
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