Alan Thornett This text below was written by myself and John Lister in July 2011 as a chapter on Britain in the book New Parties of the Left, published by Resistance Books book a month later. It pulls together [...]
Terry Conway assesses the first national meeting of Left Unity, held in London on May 11: Over a hundred people from fifty five local groups, as well as members of the day-to-day organising group, met for the first national meeting [...]
By Susan Pashkoff: In the first three months of 2013, 694 provisions restricting a women’s right to choose have been introduced in different US states. The fact that amendments to the constitutions of various states give the foetus “personhood” is [...]
Giorgos Karistinos reports on the shocking realities he witnessed: I feel obliged to speak about the things I witnessed with my own eyes at the Police Station of Drapetsona, a close-to- the city- port neighborhood in Piraeus. I really have no idea [...]
Current grassroots mobilizations in Spain, known as 15M or Indignados movement involves and benefits a great deal from feminisms. It is refreshing to see various feminist currents flowing through the Iberian streets in a symbiotic relationship with other struggles as [...]
Bai Ruixue and Au Loong yu 24th April 2013 The strike by around 450 dockworkers at Hong Kong International Terminals (HIT) to demand for higher wages, which began almost one month ago, continues into its fourth week as management still [...]
Liz Peretz recounts a local case study: Women, as we know, are bearing the brunt of the cuts – as workers, carers (daughters, mothers, wives). For most of us the attack is coming at us from all sides. As the [...]
Ken Loach’s Spirit of 45 hit cinemas up and down Britain on March 17 and was appreciated by packed audiences from Edinburgh to Brighton. Loach has long been an important part of the radical left and his work – from [...]
Janet Ray reflects on the life of this extraordinary woman: Mother Jones was both a trade union and community organiser, a tiny woman dressed always in black. She had no fixed abode but went from strike to strike helping workers [...]
It is usual that, for International Women’s Day on March 8, this and other web sites commemorate the role that women played in the Russian revolution, in celebration of which International Women’s Day became a regular event writes Terry Conway. [...]
Dangerous Liaisons : the marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism by Cinzia Arruzza An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement. The first part is historical, the second theoretical. Historical examples range from [...]
An election for General Secretary of UNITE will take place in March and Len McCluskey will be seeking a second term of office. Jerry Hicks, who has obtained at least 120 valid nominations (more than twice the 50 necessary to [...]
The newly formed National Health Action Party (NHAP) announced its candidacy in the Eastleigh by-election, set to take place on February 28, just a couple of days after the election schedule was announced. The NHAP has been formed in response [...]
The statement below was issued by the Democratic Left Front(DLF) , a united movement of trade unions, community organisations and political formations in South Africa , formed to resist the policies of neoliberalism of the ANC-led government. The statement deals [...]
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