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.
Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
Submitted by Comrade Motopu on Jan 29 2017 12:26
A pro-life marcher speaking the language of the Left and what it says about the tone and form of a position versus the content.
1970: The Vancouver to Ottawa Abortion Caravan
Submitted by Reddebrek on Jan 26 2017 20:32
In 1970 a group of Feminist embarked on a caravan tour from Vancouver to Ottawa to protest the lack of rights to access to abortion in Canada.
Gallardón's Law would force women to give birth
Submitted by hellfrozeover on Jan 19 2014 16:01
Proposed new Spanish abortion law which would force women to give birth stuns womens' organisations.
Pope embraces the No Choice March in Rome
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on May 13 2013 22:13
Pro-life supporters march in Rome on Mother's Day (March 12); meanwhile a hundred of left-wing activist also rallied to remember Giorgiana Masi, the 18-year old who was killed in 1977 during a rally celebrating the anniversary of the victory of the divorce referendum.
Women are Denied the Right to Abortion in Jesi, Ancona
Submitted by StrugglesInItaly on Sep 18 2012 14:58
Women are de facto denied the right to abortion in the hospital of Jesi (a small town near Ancona), where all the gynecologists are objectors. Local of CGIL Union denounced this episode as a violation of a right guaranteed by Italian Law 194/1978, itself the result of a decade of feminist struggles.
The rise of the British culture warriors
Submitted by Phil on Mar 25 2012 14:36
This post was prompted by Joseph Kay's "bodies as a site of class struggle." As well as raising some interesting questions regarding the right to choose and class struggle - which I'll offer my own thoughts on here - it also prompted me to look more closely at the re-ignited abortion debate. I've been aware of it only peripherally due to my focus being elsewhere, but certainly what's happening there is very scary indeed.
- 1 of 2
- ››
