Women
Texas law triggers US-wide attack on abortion rights
Marcus Otono, Nashville, Tennessee Tue, 12/10/2021 - 13:01Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long battle over abortion rights in the United States. Read more...
Afghanistan: Women show the way against fundamentalist reaction
Revolutionary Socialist Movement, Pakistan section of the League for the Fifth International Sun, 12/09/2021 - 15:25Afghan women are leading the way in organising anti-Taliban protests in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. They are doing what US and allied occupying forces failed to do: stand up to the Taliban. Read more...
Femicide in Austria
Aventina Holzer, AST 283 Mon, 07/06/2021 - 11:10Austria is one of the few EU countries where regularly more women are killed than men. In 2017, it was the only one. But what does this different profile of female homicides tell us? Read more...
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...
