Women
We will not be Silenced: Solidarity with Pakistan's Women's Movement
League for the Fifth International Wed, 17/03/2021 - 13:26In Pakistan, violence against women and rape cases doubled in the last six months of 2020, cases of child abuse even tripled. Read more...
International Women’s Day, 2021
League for the Fifth International Sat, 06/03/2021 - 20:192020 will long be remembered for the enormous scale of the public health, economic and social crisis triggered by Covid19. Read more...
Poland: Mass protests and strikes against abortion ban
Aventina Holzer/Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1124, 30. Oktober 2020 Fri, 30/10/2020 - 18:15For days, thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets in Poland. Their signs and banners read: "They have blood on their robes", "Protect the women", "Fuck off" and "This is war". Read more...
Hypocrisy and fundamentalism: the attacks on women's rights in post-coup Brazil
Liga Socialista, Brazil Sun, 20/09/2020 - 12:35On 27 August 2020, the Bolsonaro government carried out yet another vicious attack on women's rights. Read more...
Women’s Oppression: the dual burden of the Corona-Heroines
Jaqueline Katherina Singh, Neue Internationale 247, May 2020 Tue, 16/06/2020 - 17:04Internationally, women make up 70 percent of the staff in social and care professions. Read more...
Feminism for the 99%? Social reproduction and the socialist revolution
Urte March, redflagonline Mar 3, 2020 Sun, 07/06/2020 - 11:08Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto
By Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, & Nancy Fraser
Verso; 96 pages; £7.99 Read more...
Germany: Covid-19 and domestic violence
Jonathan Frühling. Neue Internationale 245, April 2020 Wed, 08/04/2020 - 09:46It is often claimed that the bourgeois family is a place of security, protection and the closest solidarity in society. Read more...
Coronavirus in Pakistan: Stop all non-essential work, grant paid leave to workers!
Reproduced from Socialist Resistance, Pakistan, in solidarity Tue, 24/03/2020 - 11:18According to official data, six people have died in Pakistan while 878 have tested positive for coronavirus at the time of writing this report. Read more...
