Sylvia Pankhurst (1882 –1960) was a formidable figure; an internationalist and anti-imperialist, an anti racist, and for a period a…

By Mekdela Ejigu THE limited legal abortion and women’s reproductive rights available in the United States exist in a permanent…

COMPLAINTS of sexual harassment and discrimination by women officers and activists often go unresolved in the unions and the Labour…

By a London teacher The recent decision by an East London primary school to ban pupils from wearing the hijab…

By Ella Mertens WHETHER in Chile or Ireland, Germany or Poland – all over the world – women are protesting…

By Jaqueline Singh WHILE within Fortress Europe right wing agitation and violence against refugees are on the increase, its external…

By Hemamali Wijesinghe  Sri Lanka has had a developed culture and literacy for many centuries. As far back as 1931,…

MINNIE Lansbury was born in 1889 in Stepney in the East End of London. Her parents, Annie and Isaac Glassman,…

By Frederik Haber THE results of the metal-workers’ pay campaign in Germany have attracted a lot of attention not only…

By a Unison schools convenor There are 1.3 million local government and school support workers – 78 per cent of…

By Micaela Edelson The colonization of Indigenous women has persisted even in the ‘post-colonial’ era. Specifically, colonialism promoted a shift…

By a CWU rep After three months of negotiations, CWU leaders are recommending members vote to accept the deal, claiming…

ON 6 FEBRUARY 1918, the Representation of the People Act extended the franchise to some women over 30 and all…

THE SYRIAN Observatory for Human Rights reports that Bashar al-Assad’s warplanes, artillery and barrel bombing helicopters have launched a major…

THE HOUSING crisis is reaching new heights after Persimmon Homes bosses share £600 million in bonuses. Young people are struggling…

MEMBERS OF the University College Union (UCU) have smashed through the government’s strike ballot threshold to declare their support for…

AS FIGURES showed rough sleeping in England increased for the seventh consecutive year, Jeremy Corbyn promised a Labour government would…

IT GIANT Fujitsu are the latest company to step up their union-busting campaigns, which have been on the increase –…

JEREMY CORBYN has said that there is no convincing solution to the housing crisis that “does not start with a…

THE COLLAPSE of Carillion and the recent National Auditing Office report have put Private Finance Initiatives (PFI) under the microscope…

SOME SOUTHWARK Labour councillors have been halted – if only temporarily – in their quest to turn Elephant & Castle’s…

ERICA GARNER, the Black Lives Matter activist and Bernie Sanders campaigner, has died after a heart attack, aged just 27….

WITH COUNCIL elections looming in London, the Tory press is full of increasingly worried articles about a Labour landslide. Pollsters…

OPRAH WINFREY’S Golden Globes speech aroused many hearts and moved audiences at the 2018 Golden Globes Awards. While accepting the…

IN A dramatic about turn, Newham’s directly elected Mayor, Sir Robin Wales, has called for an “open selection” ballot to…

HUNDREDS OF thousands took to the streets in cities across the US on January 20 and 21 to mark the…

ACCORDING TO police records, knife crime has risen by 21 per cent in the past year, and gun-related offences by…

THE CLEAN sweep of Momentum candidates for three new seats created to represent Labour’s expanded membership on its nec is…

LABOUR’S DEMOCRACY review, led by Katy Clark, is an important opportunity for members to demand the opening up of the…

Labour needs to become a genuine social movement to make an election victory the launchpad for a real struggle for…