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'If women stop, the world stops': a view from the mass women’s strike in Spain

After huge strikes and protests in Spain, the message on the ground is to stay in the streets
A history of International Women's Day

In this article, originally published in 1998, Lindsey German traces the history of International Women's Day - initially a celebration of the struggle of working women fighting back over suffrage and conditions at work
After the election, is US foreign policy likely to change?

As the chaotic presidential election inches towards resolution, we can expect more continuity than change in US foreign policy, argues Terina Hine
Always in the front line

Women workers have been at the forefront of every new wave of struggle
BBC Proms takes a step towards equal gender representation

Richard Pratt takes on some of the arguments being made against the decision by BBC Proms to hire as many women as men as composers for the festival
Bernie Sanders vs the Democrat establishment – weekly briefing

Lindsey German on democratic socialism, witch-hunting and the fight for women’s liberation
Biden's politics as usual is what produced Trump in the first place

Trumpism is still alive and the left must recognise the centrality of class in order to organise against it, argues Yonas Makoni
Engels was right, class society and women's oppression aren't inevitable or irreversible

As part of our series on the revolutionary Frederick Engels, on the 200th anniversary of his birth, Elaine Graham-Leigh looks at Engels' The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State
Glasgow refuse workers respect picket lines in solidarity with women’s pay strike

Strike action in Glasgow spreads, showing the power of solidarity of men and women workers, reports Vladimir Unkovski-Korica
Ship, iceberg... you know what happens next - weekly briefing

Tory calamity combined with Jeremy Corbyn's increasing consolidation of the mainstream puts a premium on extra-parliamentary activity for rest of the left, asserts Lindsey German
Strike 4 Repeal: International Women's Day in Ireland

On International Women's Day, thousands of women in Ireland went on strike and took to the streets reports Amy O'Donoghue
Talk about equality is cheap, but paying women a decent wage is much too costly - weekly briefing

Less glass ceilings and more grassroots is the key to reviving the role of women’s liberation in our struggle, argues Lindsey German
The Equal Pay Act at 50: a bittersweet celebration

That women workers’ pay in the UK continues to lag significantly behind that of men underlines the limits of legal change under capitalism, argues Susan Ram
Time's up Theresa - Counterfire Freesheet March 2018

Brexit, Corbyn and the Labour right, gender pay gap, commodification of universities and more...
Time's up Theresa - Counterfire Freesheet March 2018

Brexit, Corbyn and the Labour right, gender pay gap, commodification of universities and more...
Women's March: this is what democracy looks like - photos

5 million people. 670 protests. 75 countries. The Women's March was the biggest global protest event since the 2003 protests against the Iraq War.