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The racist offensive disproportionately affects women – and must be opposed

8th March 2022 shoreditchadmin2 0

The government chooses to attack the health and the living standards of the many, it uses racism to divide, distract and scapegoat for its failures. Racism makes life so much harder for Bame women. Let us pledge to march against racism marking UN Anti-Racism Day in London and Glasgow on Saturday March 19 and in Cardiff on Sunday March 20.

Women, Covid and the family

7th March 2022 shoreditchadmin2 0

The experience of Covid illustrates Engels’ point. It has vividly demonstrated the role of the family as an economic unit, to provide, unremunerated, unrecognised and with significant personal loss, services that should be socially provided. It is an impossible demand.

The basis for ending war in Ukraine is clear – no to NATO, respect for national rights in East Ukraine

6th March 2022 shoreditchadmin2 0

The war in Ukraine could be ended extremely rapidly by:
• Making it clear Ukraine will not enter NATO.
• By acceptance of the rights of the Russian speaking population of East Ukraine.
These are the policies that the left should support.

Why the Russian people of Donetsk and Lugansk have the right to self-determination

22nd February 2022 shoreditchadmin2 0

Every democratic position, from simple avoidance of terror, through acceptance of democratic votes, to the Marxist principle of the right of nations to self-determination determines that the Russian population of the East of Ukraine – in Donetsk, Lugansk and Crimea – has the right to self-determination.

180,000 dead not enough – Johnson willing to kill many more to save his own skin

14th February 2022 shoreditchadmin2 0

The resistance to this policy of social murder on a mass scale has devolved to campaigners, increasingly militant medics and scientist as well as an honourable but small minority of the labour movement and left MPs. The bulk of the labour movement remains silent in its acquiescence.

Out of Gas – Protests Rising

14th February 2022 shoreditchadmin2 0

No less than six new oil and gas fields are set for approval by the Tory government this year. It takes a peculiar kind of genius to argue that – faced with eye watering increases in gas prices – we need to avoid investing in alternatives to gas.