A Class Perspective on the 'Women Question'
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 24 2019 14:42
We cannot talk about proletarian and communist revolution if it does not express both the emancipation of the proletariat from class exploitation, and, on the same basis, the emancipation of women from gender oppression.
Bonzo goes to Oslo: Christian fundamentalists and the far-right strike a new pose
Submitted by R Totale on Feb 26 2019 22:00
A look at recent attempts by religious fundamentalist reactionaries and conspiracy theorists to build coalitions with "gender critical" feminists.
性别的逻辑——领域的分离与抛弃的过程
Submitted by sjzc on Sep 26 2018 08:04
在性别去自然化、再生产劳动商品化的时代，借用马克思的价值理论重新思考21世纪的资本主义为何仍然需要将人类“深深印刻着这种或那种性别”。这篇马克思主义女权理论的重要作品终于翻译成中文。
Living The Dream in the time of #metoo Part 1
Submitted by With Sober Senses on Jun 15 2018 04:26
#metoo has brought issues of sexual violence and gender to the forefront of public debate. But what's it all about? What's the relationship of #metoo to older feminist ideas and struggles over gendered violence and how has feminism engaged with questions of violence, crime and the state? Part 1 of a 2 part special from Living the Dream at The Word From Struggle Street
Get mad and get even
Eleanor Robertson critiques liberal forms of feminism, and offers some suggestions for what a class-struggle approach could look like. This article first appeared in Meanjin Quarterly.
Feminist strike? - Nuevo Curso
An article on the idea of the "women's strike", by Spanish communist collective Nuevo Curso, translated by the Communist Workers' Organisation. libcom.org do not agree with all of it but reproduce it for reference and discussion.
Transphobes at Out Of The Blue in Leith. Edinburgh Sisters Uncut and Co respond.
Submitted by Rory Reid on Feb 19 2018 17:42
A Report from Edinburgh on opposition to transphobia.
Lenin on 'freedom of love' as a bourgeois demand
Letters from Lenin to Inessa Armand Written on 1915 where he describes 'freedom of love' as a bourgeois demand. Furthermore freedom of love is described as 'freedom from the serious element in love.. child birth... of adultery'.
Falling star: Countering gender essentialism with sex essentialism
Red and Black Leeds on the limitations of both gender essentialism and sex essentialism as a way to understand gender expression and identity.
The logic of gender: on the separation of spheres and the process of abjection
Marxist-feminists have employed a number of binary oppositions: productive/reproductive, paid/unpaid and public/private. We interrogate these categories and propose new ones. Starting from the specificities of the production and reproduction of labour-power, we define gender as the anchoring of individuals into two separate spheres of social reproduction. We trace the development of these spheres through the history of the capitalist mode of production, and survey the dynamics of gender in the recent crisis, which we characterize as a rise of the abject.
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