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The Murder of Mary Ashford: an interview with women’s history writer, Naomi Clifford
INTERVIEW The Murder of Mary Ashford: The Crime that Changed English Legal History explores the true story of servant, Mary Ashford, from Erdington, who was raped and murdered by Abraham Thornton, whom she had met at a local party. The case stands out in the way it galvanised a group of influential middle-class men, under […]
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Abolishing the family and obtaining gestational justice: an interview with Sophie Lewis
INTERVIEW Sophie Lewis is a feminist theorist, scholar, and author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, which argues for the abolition of the nuclear family as we know it, and against the long-accepted status quo of pregnancy, which sees 300,000 women die a year during childbirth (World Health Organisation). “What other workplace or industry […]
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‘This government is creating an environment for war and collapse’: an interview with Extinction Rebellion’s Liam Norton
INTERVIEW It was exactly a month ago when Extinction Rebellion (XR) grabbed media attention after two of their members, NHS nurse, Ann White, and war veteran, Donald Bell, laid down a protest wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph memorial with a slogan demanding action against what the UN has recognised as a climate crisis. […]
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Anti-LGBT Hungarian politician arrested at gay sex party, after breaking COVID-19 regulations
REPORT József Szájer, former Member of the European Parliament, was arrested on 27 November in Brussels for breaking the local COVID-19 regulations, as he attempted to leave unnoticed from a gay sex party, involving at least 25 men, by climbing naked down a gutter. The report from the Public Prosecutors’ Office also states that Szájer’s […]
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“Unlearned lessons from the past will lead to repeated tragedies.” An interview with the man helping to lead the fight to safeguard a mass grave in Yekaterinburg
INTERVIEW Politika News spoke to Anatolii Svechnikov, coordinator of the civil rights NGO, Уральский Мемориал (Ural Memorial), which is a local branch of the post-Soviet civil rights group Мемориал (Memorial) led by academics and activists. The organisation dedicates itself to raising awareness about the oppression and persecution that took place throughout the Soviet Union, and […]
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Building over a mass grave: Russian council continues its erasure of Stalin’s Terror
REPORT Activists from the Ural branch of the post-Soviet historical and civil rights NGO, Memorial, are raising the alarm, after finding evidence that Yekaterinburg council is commencing a new construction project within a known mass burial ground. In the grounds lie an estimated minimum of 20 000 victims of Stalinist crimes. The civil rights organisation, […]
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Serbia’s new cabinet: the gender balance does nothing to rectify existing problems
REPORT More than 100 days after the 2020 parliamentary and local elections, Serbia chose its new government. Statistically, there are more women as ministers than ever in the new government: some of the new ministers are completely new whilst others have merely changed department. According to Bloomberg, the new Serbian cabinet is now among the […]
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Spain’s proposed abortion reforms: a small yet welcome step
OPINION After a court ruling in Poland imposed a near-total ban on abortions in October 2020, the pro-life versus pro-choice debate has been pushed back into the European spotlight. In Spain, a country which shares Poland’s ties with Catholicism, abortion also remains a controversial political issue. Yet there is hope in Spain that more women […]
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The danger of Germany’s fractured democracy
OPINION 30 years after the reunification of Germany, deep democratic divides remain. Reunification still summons up images of huge protests, chants of “Wir sind ein Volk” and, of course, the final toppling of the wall and surge of people from East to West. Against all expectations, it took less than a year for currency union […]
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An interview with Polish abortion rights protesters: ‘the Church and politicians will kill women in Poland’
INTERVIEW As Poland’s right-wing PiS (Law and Justice) government puts on hold the implementation of a new court ruling that would outlaw almost all abortions, Politika News talks to Polish women who have been protesting over the last week. They try to put into words their anger and fatigue, as well as what life for […]
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