Posted on March 6th 2009 |
Women's Day demonstration – Tehran 1979
What is now known as International Women’s Day was initially called International Working Women’s Day and was a key date in the communist calendar. Unfortunately over the years the connection between this day, on which we mark the fight for women’s liberation, and the struggle for communism has weakened. We [...]
Posted on November 10th 2008 |
By Nick Jones
The emancipation of women has long been of importance and controversy for Marxists. It is necessary to critically examine those attempts on the left to champion an ‘anti-capitalist feminism’ as the solution to this form of oppression, as expressed most recently by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s front organisation, Feminist Fightback.
It is crucial [...]
Posted on November 9th 2008 |
Genuine Marxists express the need to contextualise abortion programmatically in political and economic spheres. Ted North reports recent debates
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Bill was approved by the House of Commons on October 22 despite the opposition of former minister and Opus Dei member Ruth Kelly, who was one of 16 Labour MPs to [...]
Posted on May 17th 2008 |
by Nick Jones
Professor of Gender and Labour History, Sociology at the University of Manchester, Sheila Rowbotham spoke to a crowded gathering of attendees of ‘1968 And All That’ on the topic of ‘The personal and the political in 1968′ discussing the way events in 1968 shaped her work and philosophy. The central focus of Sheila’s [...]
Posted on April 1st 2008 |
The NUS women’s officer campaigns have been marked by their economism. By Anne McShane
The election of a women’s officer has importance in a period when women’s rights are under attack. Chief among these is the threat to abortion rights. Now women can have an abortion up to the first 24 weeks of pregnancy, with the [...]
Posted on February 5th 2007 |
One of the many depressing statistics that surfaced in the wake of this year’s new tuition fees regime, alongside the 15,000 absentees, was a ‘shock study’ by academics at Kingston University into student sex-workers. The research, which asked 130 students whether they knew others who had worked in the sex industry, suggested a 50% rise [...]
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