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  • Madrid on 8th March 2018 during the mass women's strike. Photo: Youtube

    '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

  • Protest for the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911. Photo: Flickr/US National Archives

    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

  • Biden, Yokota Air Base. Photo: Dvidshub / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-2.0, license linked at bottom of article

    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

  • Bryant and May match girls strike committee, 1888

    Always in the front line

    Women workers have been at the forefront of every new wave of struggle

  • BBC Proms. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

    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 speaking in Des Moines, Iowa in 2019

    Bernie Sanders vs the Democrat establishment – weekly briefing

    Lindsey German on democratic socialism, witch-hunting and the fight for women’s liberation

  • Joe Biden in the White House, 2013. Photo: Dannel Malloy / Wikimedia Commons / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0, license linked at bottom of article

    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 women's strike, October 23rd, 2018. Photo: Twitter/@HelenLMeldrum

    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

  • Theresa May by Thierry Ehrmann, 2016 (detail)

    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. Photo: Flickr/William Murphy

    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

  • Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin & Dolly Parton starring in 1980 film, ‘9 to 5’

    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 

  • Ford machinist workers on strike in Dagenham, 1968. Photo: Dermot Feenan via flickr

    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...

  • Seattle, USA. Photo: Rachael LeClear

    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.

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