Why a woman’s right to choose still needs to be campaigned for
A Feminist Lens podcast interview with Abortion Rights Chair Kerry Abel.
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Parliamentary vote on a non-existent genocide against Uyghurs insults those who suffered real genocides
On22 April the House of Commons will vote on the claim that China is carrying out a genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. There is no genocide and the truth will come out, just as the lies used to justify the disastrous US wars on Iraq and Vietnam were exposed.
CRED report denying institutional racism is part of Tories’ racist offensive
The controversial CRED report is a right wing ideological attempt to shift the narrative on racism away from discussing how to address institutional racism to questioning its very existence – a cynical attempt to blow the dog whistle by a Tory government.
Zig Zag Politics in Latin America
Vijay Prashad analyses recent political and electoral trends in Latin America against the background of the Covid pandemic and the US offensive against the left in the region.
US-backed banker Lasso prevails in Ecuador’s election – a disaster for the people
Guillermo Lasso, a former banker with close ties to the US, won Ecuador’s presidential election, defeating progressive candidate Andrés Arauz. The left, meanwhile, remains a major political force in Ecuador and will resist the avalanche of attacks to come.
British government provokes and encourages Loyalist rioting – Irish Republicans blamed
The Unionist and Loyalist communities have been misled by their own parties and lied to so as to serve Tory Party ambitions. The sectarian and supremacist ideology of those communities is under threat from the closer trade relationship with the Irish Republic that is a consequence of a Hard Brexit.