women

Content about women, gender, feminism and women's struggles.

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

The work/energy crisis and the apocalypse - George Caffentzis

1980 essay by George Caffentzis examining capitalist society following the 1973 energy and economic crisis amidst the widespread refusal of work by women and the young.

Anagrams - Lorrie Moore

Benna leads different lives, English teacher, nightclub singer, aerobics instructor. She's a mother and she's never had children. The stories and…

“Ironies of the saint” Malcolm X, black women, and the price of protection - Farah Griffin

Farah Griffin's black feminist critique of Malcolm X and the "promise of protection…

Insurrections at the intersections: feminism, intersectionality and anarchism

Insurrections at the intersections: feminism, intersectionality and anarchism - Abbey Volcano and J Rogue

A critique of liberal conceptions of 'intersectionality' and an outline of an…

Senior assistant general secretary of the RMT union, Steve Hedley.

Steve Hedley: not “cleared of domestic violence” with a case still to answer - Andy Littlechild

Steve Hedley was not cleared of domestic violence and still has a case to answer…

Toward a cybernetic communism: the technology of the anti-family - Nina Power

Toward a cybernetic communism: the technology of the anti-family - Nina Power

Nina Power's critique of Shulamith Firestone's classic radical feminist text, 'The Dialectic of Sex'…

Lionesses of Cisanello: workers’ victory in times of austerity

Cleaners at the Cisanello hospital in Pisa picketed their workplace for over three months, from…

On rape, cages, and the Steubenville verdict - Mia McKenzie

Mia McKenzie from Black Girl Dangerous on the Steubenville rape verdict, and CNN news lamenting the …

SWP crisis: some analysis, some thoughts

The UK Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is in deep crisis after rape accusations and faction fights have ended in the leadership…

RMT

Domestic violence, International Women's Day, and the RMT

We reproduce below the statement made by RMT member Caroline Leneghan on her personal blog, in…

‘Feminism is a dirty word’. What would Marx and Engels think today? - Camilla Power

This article takes ‘dinosaur marxists’ to task for refusing to treat rape as a political issue. The…

SWP 'expulsions' for discussing rape - not for the first time!

For the Socialist Workers’ Party, rape is now a big issue. Under very different circumstances – when…