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ANOTHER LEADING female politician speaks plainly about women’s central role in the fight for peace in the world.  In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this month will concentrate on aspects of peace. “Without women’s equal ...

THE UK GOVERNMENT’S response to the Corona pandemic has been ridden with all the establishment prejudice and discrimination of normal times – but the crisis has made it all just a little bit more obvious. The virus doesn’t discriminate: the ...

THE MOST destructive bomb the world has ever known was made thanks to the work of Albert Einstein. However, he was also a lifelong pacifist – and was a another person who summed up the absurdity of war very well. ...

THE CAMPAIGN FOR peace has often been led by women campaigners – as Isabel Allenda suggests. In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this month will concentrate on aspects of peace. “I can promise you that ...

HE’S NOT KNOWN for catchy slogans, but former UK Prime Minister William Gladstone found a neat way of counterposing the main motivation for war – and its alternative. In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this ...

ASTONISHING: 500 years ago a simple statement spelled out the absurdity of war. In April, we remember the anti-nuclear weapons Aldermaston march: our “Thoughts” this month will concentrate on aspects of peace. “Can anything be stupider than that a man ...

BERNIE SANDERS is the one mainstream candidate campaigning solidly from the left in the US presidential election campaign. He has now acknowledged that he cannot win enough votes in the primaries to become the Democratic Party candidate in this autumn’s ...

AT A SEAT IN THE restaurant at the end of the universe, Douglas Adams – we hope – is sat penning more observations on the workings of the universe and its inhabitants. “Human beings, who are almost unique in having ...

TO END Women’s History Month, let’s remember that women’s liberation is a class issue too, not just a battle against patriarchy – whatever Margaret Thatcher might have thought. She may have risen to the highest office of state of any ...

THE POSITON OF women workers has improved slightly over the last 50 years – but the basic point which German politician Clara Zetkin makes remains true. “The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid ...