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6 days ago | leftvoice.org | Tess Lowery

​On April 16, 2025, the UK Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the terms "man, ""woman" and "sex" in the Equality Act 2010 refer to biological sex, not gender identity - even for transgender individuals with a Gender Recognition Certificate (GRC), a legal document that allows a transgender person to have their affirmed gender legally recognized in the UK. It's a move that underscores the power of an issue that oxidises the flames of right-wing dogma.

1 week ago | leftvoice.org | James Hoff |Marcos Nok

On April 2, Labor Notes weighed in on the debate over United Auto Workers (UAW) leader Shawn Fain's support of Trump's tariffs with an article by General Motors (GM) factory worker and Democratic Socialists of America member, Sean Crawford.

1 week ago | leftvoice.org | Nathaniel Flakin

On April 11, 1945, as U.S. troops approached Buchenwald, the resistance groups inside the concentration camp launched an insurrection. The secret leadership committee, made up of prisoners of different nationalities, handed out weapons to the inmates who proceeded to storm the gate house and the guard towers. Most of the SS guards had fled a few hours earlier - the rest were disarmed. When the U.S. army reached Buchenwald, they found a camp under the control of its prisoners.

3 weeks ago | leftvoice.org | Nathaniel Flakin

On March 18, Germany's Bundestag (parliament) held its first-ever trillion-euro-session. The emerging Grand Coalition of CDU and SPD, with the support of the Greens, got the two-thirds majority required to amend the constitution. Three days later, the Bundesrat (federal chamber), also approved the measure by a two-thirds majority. The changes will keep the constitutional "debt brake" in place, which has mandated austerity since 2009. Except now, military spending will be exempted.

3 weeks ago | leftvoice.org | Nathaniel Flakin |Tess Lowery

A jubilant " GUILTY" plastered over Marine Le Pen's face filled the cover of the French centre-left newspaper, Libération, on April 1. Such was the reaction by most left-leaning people to Monday's ruling by a criminal court in Paris that the leader of France's far-right wing party National Rally (RN) was guilty of embezzling European Union funds.