Every March 8 we fight for women’s rights across the world. Yet, this year’s M8 is not one more on the calendar. We are going through the third year of the pandemic, an avoidable catastrophe that exposes the criminality of capitalism which is crueler to us. There are plenty of reasons which are increasingly deepening […]
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From the 1st of February, thousands of Anganwadi workers in India’s capital of New Delhi have come out on the streets striking, in what is an unprecedented indefinite strike. The government of Delhi, led by the reformist petty bourgeois party, the Aam Aadmi Party (Common man’s party), has failed to meet the basic demands of the […]
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Russian troops out of Ukraine! Weapons for resistance! USA, NATO and EU out of Ukraine! NATO and CSTO dissolution! On Tuesday 22 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion of Ukraine. Putin aims to overthrow the Zelensky government, bring the country under his domination, annex the Donbass, prevent Ukraine from joining NATO and warn […]
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What Putin expected to be little more than a cakewalk is becoming increasingly complicated for the Russian troops who invaded Ukraine on February 24. Far from being seen and treated as “liberators,” as Moscow’s propaganda announced, the Russians are being strongly resisted by the Ukrainian army and civilian militias. Amid hardship and destruction, images show […]
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It’s been a week since the beginning of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. According to Ukrainian figures, the death toll is 2,000 plus, not counting combat casualties. In just seven days, there are one million refugees. The UN estimates that this figure may exceed four million. [1] Internally displaced people number another million. In entire cities […]
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The tensions that occurred throughout the 18th and 19th remain issues in Stockport today. Stockport is an area of wealth with pockets and areas of poverty – a town where rich and poor co-exist. Today in Stockport while the homeless sleep on the “beach” under Merseyway, a mile away “four-by-fours” disembark pupils at the town’s […]
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John Pearson, Secretary, Stockport Fights Austerity – No To Cuts I first met Peter when we were founder members of the Stockport branch of the Socialist Alliance in 2003. I became Secretary and Peter became Treasurer. It soon became apparent that Peter was a highly committed internationalist, revolutionary socialist. In our branch’s political discussions, his […]
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Peter Windeler speaking on behalf of Stockport Trades Council 27 January 2022 As you may be aware, Trades Councils bring together trade unions in particular localities to fight and defend workers’ rights and working conditions. Although I am now a representative on behalf of teachers, in the 1980s I was a representative of bank workers […]
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