Mass demonstrations and harsh governmental crackdowns are not new in Turkish political history writes Yunus Sözen , Antikapitalist Eylem (Anticapitalist Action). However, although the current demonstrations in Istanbul and throughout Turkey were initiated by socialists, there is no doubt that we [...]
Bob Dylan remarks somewhere that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows”. He forgot to add: you might need one to tell you about the tragedy of extreme weather events. Not, perhaps, those committed by [...]
By Susan Pashkoff: In the first three months of 2013, 694 provisions restricting a women’s right to choose have been introduced in different US states. The fact that amendments to the constitutions of various states give the foetus “personhood” is [...]
Giorgos Karistinos reports on the shocking realities he witnessed: I feel obliged to speak about the things I witnessed with my own eyes at the Police Station of Drapetsona, a close-to- the city- port neighborhood in Piraeus. I really have no idea [...]
Current grassroots mobilizations in Spain, known as 15M or Indignados movement involves and benefits a great deal from feminisms. It is refreshing to see various feminist currents flowing through the Iberian streets in a symbiotic relationship with other struggles as [...]
Liz Peretz recounts a local case study: Women, as we know, are bearing the brunt of the cuts – as workers, carers (daughters, mothers, wives). For most of us the attack is coming at us from all sides. As the [...]
SATURDAY 13 APRIL; 1pm – 5pm Discussion and Debate on Women’s Liberation: The origins of women’s oppression What is socialist feminism? Speakers: Jane Shallice, Joanna Ramiro (ACI) and Jane Kelly (SR) Venue: Community Centre, 62 Marchmont Street, WC1N 1AB (Kings [...]
In a press conference on Monday 18th March the two largest teacher unions announced a series of joint strikes starting on Thursday June 27th and continuing into the autumn term. The first days of strike action will be regional strikes, involving every part of [...]
The comrades who have resigned due to the Socialist Workers’ Party’s handling of claims of rape and sexual harassment against prominent activists acted in accordance with their sense of revolutionary socialist integrity. As some of them say in their statement [...]
Janet Ray reflects on the life of this extraordinary woman: Mother Jones was both a trade union and community organiser, a tiny woman dressed always in black. She had no fixed abode but went from strike to strike helping workers [...]
Hard on the heels of their drubbing in the Eastleigh by-election last week, comes the news that the Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition have won their first ever election under their own colours reports Harry Blackwell. Standing under the description [...]
It is usual that, for International Women’s Day on March 8, this and other web sites commemorate the role that women played in the Russian revolution, in celebration of which International Women’s Day became a regular event writes Terry Conway. [...]
Dangerous Liaisons : the marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism by Cinzia Arruzza An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers’ movement and the women’s movement. The first part is historical, the second theoretical. Historical examples range from [...]
The People’s Assembly Against Austerity on the 22 June, initiated by the Coalition of Resistance, is becoming the main focus for every local and national campaign against cuts and in defence of the welfare state and the NHS in particular. [...]
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