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Women’s work and women’s super-exploitation
Let’s reject capitalism’s #EmbraceEquity theme for International Women’s Day and highlight the real issues facing women workers, argues MARY DAVIS
Still not won: an equal pay protest at Downing Street back in 1952
The catastrophe unfolding in Gaza – where Palestinians are freezing to death in tents – is not a natural disaster but a calculated outcome of Israel’s ongoing blockade, aid restrictions and continued violence, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
CJ ATKINS argues that despite losing the election, Chile’s left remains big and organised and must unite to resist the new far-right government
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Alba party leader KENNY MacASKILL makes some suggestions on how to save our pubs and reduce irresponsible drinking
After years of austerity and denial under a new Reform UK council, a failing Send service was pushed into the spotlight by staff, unions and parents — culminating in a £1.3m funding boost and a 50% increase in front-line workers. MARTIN PORTER explains
THE Communist Party’s theme for International Women’s Day is “Women’s Work: Women’s Super-exploitation — Wages, Prices & Profits.”
Contrast this with the “official” IWD 2023 theme, which under the aegis of corporate capitalism, now thinks it owns our day.
Each year this anonymous organisation consisting only of a website and in partnership this year with John Deere (the agriculture and construction company) invents a new theme which is suited to commercial interests.
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Women’s hard-fought-for rights are facing sustained and serious ideological attack. Let this International Women’s Day be a call to arms, says Professor MARY DAVIS
