‘This is not about sex, but about power’
What is it that has happened to open up the huge debate across the media and beyond about sexism? Why has it happened now? It’s been going on for ever yet suddenly everyone [...]
Women
Democratise Labour Women’s conference
Labour Women’s conference takes place in Brighton on Saturday September 23. But the conference will consider no resolutions and has no mechanism to impact on the main [...]
Women strike in Britain on International Women’s Day?
Solidarity with our sisters internationally on March 8 2017 – For action in Britain in 2018 A slightly edited version of this letter appears as the lead letter in [...]
“Women Are At A Breaking Point”
BY ALEXANDRIA NEASON Reprinted from The Village Voice on March 7 where it appeared under the title “Women Are At A Breaking Point” :The International [...]
Are we witnessing a moment or a movement?
Susan Pashkoff on the possibility of a new movement arising from the mass protests that took place across the world on January 21. The article was originally written for Left [...]
Trump, the Republican controlled Congress and the War on Women
Below we reproduce a timely article from Susan Pashkoff written for Daily Kos on what women are likely to be facing under the Trump Presidency and how they are resisting. [...]
Abortion in Ireland – anger hobbled by reformism
by John McAnulty On November 25, thousands of activists demonstrated in Dublin calling for the abolition of the 8th amendment to the Irish constitution – a section that [...]
‘Afghan women’s struggle wont end with NATO pullout’
Orzala Ashraf Nemat is a civil society activist from Afghanistan. Under the Taliban regime, she launched underground literacy and health education programmes for women and [...]
