Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 2)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Jan 16 2021 15:09
In our first part on reproductive struggles in class society, we highlighted some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception. We also commented on the family unit and prostitution – two phenomena Marxists deem to be flipsides of one another and inseparable from the struggle for reproductive freedom. In this piece, we shed light on sterilization, sex selective abortions, religion, and bourgeois laws as specific to the needs of capital, noting the consequential damages to the proletariat.
Barricade Bulletin 03 - March 2017
Issue 3 of Barricade Bulletin, with articles on police harassment of pro-choice activists, a talk from French antifascists about the situation there, the international women's strike movement, an IWW meeting, and the internment of Republican activist Tony Taylor.
Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 1)
Submitted by Internationalis... on Nov 27 2020 15:06
In this first piece on reproductive struggles in class society we bring to focus some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion, as well as the family unit and prostitution, two phenomena that Marxists deem to be flipsides of the same coin, and inseparable from the struggle for reproductive freedom.
The Women’s Strike in Poland: Freedom of Abortion, Freedom from Exploitation
Submitted by R Totale on Nov 23 2020 15:44
An interview with two members of Workers' Initiative in Poland involved in the Women's Strike movement against restrictions on abortion. This interview was carried out by the Transnational Social Strike Platform.
Poland: The Assault on Reproductive Rights Continues
Submitted by Internationalis... on Oct 28 2020 14:16
On 22 October 2020, the Constitutional Tribunal (Trybunał Konstytucyjny, TK) of Poland, stacked by justices from the conservative ruling party Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, PiS), ruled that termination of pregnancies is unconstitutional even when prenatal testing or other medical rationales show a large likelihood of severe and irreversible foetal impairment or an incurable life-threatening disease of the future child.
Migrating tactics: An interview with Ewa Majewska and Katarzyna Rakowska
An interview with two organisers during the Polish women's strike in 2016 over abortion rights.
Anarcho-syndicalism and the sexual reform movement in the Weimar Republic
Submitted by wojtek on Jun 5 2019 15:33
A paper by Dieter Nelles on how anarcho-syndicalists in Weimar Germany campaigned for the legalisation of abortion, helped women get illegal abortions and educated women on birth control.
Corsair Writings - Pier Paolo Pasolini
A collection of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s controversial articles and interviews from 1973-1975 on the “anthropological revolution” that transformed Italy during the 1960s and early 1970s, with its “development without progress”, “consumerist hedonism”, “false tolerance”, mass culture, impoverishment of language, neurosis, destruction of traditional peasant cultures (“cultural genocide”), “strategy of tension”, and phony anti-fascism, signaling the decline of the old fascism and the rise of a new, “permissive” fascism, a “Power without a face” that is the “worst kind of totalitarianism”.
Finally a Referendum to Repeal the 8th - Organising Made this Happen
Submitted by Anonymous on May 24 2018 10:32
The announcement that there will be a referendum to Repeal the hated 8th amendment is the product of decades of active campaigning. Pro-choice campaigners built for repeal ever since the referendum was passed in 1983.
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