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Sunday January 22 5pm - <strong>A week in politics</strong>

<strong>Robbie Rix</strong> reports on the <em>Weekly Worker</em> fighting fund

Communists should demand special measures to protect women from capitalist exploitation, not ‘genuine equality’ in the workplace. <strong>Daniel Lazare</strong> investigates the Pump Act

Dangers of war are increasing and the masses refuse to be intimidated, but the left is mired in confusion. On January 9 Hands Off the People of Iran hosted an online meeting addressed by Moshé Machover and Mike Macnair. <strong>Yassamine Mather</strong> opened with these remarks

Veteran Iranian socialist <strong>Ardeshir Mehrdad</strong> calls for class politics and the mobilisation of the lower depths of society

They continue to denounce sexism in state institutions without confronting their own history. <strong>Paul Demarty</strong> calls for some self-criticism

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As far-right control of the US Congress promises slash-and-burn austerity, <strong>Daniel Lazare</strong> calls for rejection of the existing constitution and a constituent assembly to establish a real democracy

With the British establishment suffering a collective conniption, <strong>Paul Demarty</strong> says we republicans owe a small debt to the Californian prince

The government has no clear strategy. However, to fight back we need more than trade union militancy, argues <strong>Kevin Bean</strong>