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Norma McCorvey outside the US Supreme Court
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Roe v Wade—protecting women’s health in the US

Abortion was hard fought for

27 June 2022
Marchers in Green hold a banner that says 'solidarity'
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Grenfell—how companies risked lives and then covered it up

A litany of farce and failures

13 June 2022
Mother bottle feeds her child.
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Baby formula shortages in the US are no accident

Baby formula crisis is hurting families

04 June 2022
The cover of Regenesis by George Monbiot
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How farming for profit rips the life from the soil

A new book by George Monbiot

22 May 2022
Constructing Crossrail
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‘We apologise for the delay’—Crossrail line finally arrives

After years of delays Crossrail will open

15 May 2022
Refuse workers in Rugby, West Midlands
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Bin workers across Britain are on the frontline of struggle

Refuse workers are fighting back

09 May 2022
Stormont—Northern Irish Assembly
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Northern Ireland elections are sending Unionists into panic

Northern Irish elections start in May

19 April 2022
Ulster Defence Regiment in 1970
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New book shows collusion at the centre of Britain’s UDR regiment

Loyalist paramilitaries killed for Britain

17 April 2022
US president Joe Biden, French president Emmanuel Macron and British prime minister Boris Johnson
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‘War crimes’ flow from the logic of imperialist attacks

War crimes are shaped by society

08 April 2022
G7 leaders at a Nato summit in Brussels, Belgium
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Nato sets out its strategy for even more military build-up

Nato militarise eastern Europe against Russia

01 April 2022
Chancellor Rishi Sunak
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Inflation is avoidable and needs a response from below

Cost of living crisis isn't inevitable

28 March 2022
Russian president Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping
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‘Conflict in Ukraine risks a return to the Cold War era’

Professor Paul Rogers on Ukraine

18 March 2022
Stop the War rally at London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday 11 January 2020
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Sharp difference between trade unions’ response to war in Ukraine

Arguments in unions about the war

11 March 2022
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Amnesty tells it like it is — Israel is an apartheid state 

The solution is a single, democratic state

07 February 2022
Belfor made huge profits following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan.
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Profits flow from rampant environmental destruction

Bosses profit from climate crisis

31 January 2022
IWGB union members protesting last Thursday
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‘We can’t stand for this’—delivery workers speak out

Delivery workers want better pay and conditions

23 January 2022
The Carillion collapse and capital
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KPMG—auditor’s Carillion cover-up is part of ‘endemic’ problem

KPMG knowingly hid Carillion’s financial problems

17 January 2022
Parents full a NHS maternity ward in Scotland.
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Institutional sexism puts women’s health at risk

Symptoms of a sexist health system

09 January 2022
Prince Charles next to first president of Barbados Sandra Mason at the Independence Day ceremony on a stage
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Royal family’s reign in Barbados comes to an end

Barbados is now a republic, but still with links to Britain

04 December 2021
British soldiers aim machine guns from a trench in a training exercise in Kenya.
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British troops murder, burn and kidnap in Kenya

The British Army commits brutal crimes in Kenya

08 November 2021
Workers are demanding improved menopause policy
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Workers are demanding improved menopause policy

Women often feel alone and ignored in their workplaces but now some trade unions are fighting back. Isabel Ringrose talks to workers about what could be done

24 October 2021
Rising imperialist tensions and war games over Taiwan
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Rising imperialist tensions and war games over Taiwan

Taiwan, an island about 100 miles east of China, is at the centre of imperialist rivalries.

17 October 2021
Union leader Sarah Woolley defends split from Labour
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Union leader Sarah Woolley defends split from Labour

‘Let’s be clear, we have disaffiliated from Labour but Bfawu will try to be more political after what’s happened, not less.

09 October 2021
Labour conference won’t give members a real say
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Labour conference won’t give members a real say

Labour Party conference is approaching. Nick Clark investigates its limitations and talks to left Labour activists about what they think this year’s will bring

19 September 2021