Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were champions of women’s liberation, both in theory and in practice, in public and in private.1 Important work has already been published exploring both Marx’s and Engels’s writings about women and the family, and developing… Continue Reading
The far right is on the rise across the globe and the gains made by women since the 1960s are in their sights. The leader of the world’s most powerful nation is a proud misogynist, boasts about the sexual harassment… Continue Reading
Paragraph 219a criminalises doctors who wish to provide information about abortion. Its history goes back a long way and points to the scandal that even today there is no right to abortion in Germany.1 The Kristina Hänel “case” has pushed… Continue Reading
In university circles and on the radical left, discussion of oppression has long been dominated by the ideas of privilege theory and intersectionality.1 With the defeat of the workers’ movements from the late 1970s, analysis based on class was buried,… Continue Reading
Few in Ireland would have imagined, even a couple of years ago, that a vote to liberalise abortion would be so decisively won. The referendum on 25 May that repealed the Eighth Amendment to the Irish constitution which made abortion… Continue Reading
Women won the right to vote by waging a campaign of extraordinary ingenuity, determination and militancy. The issue of female suffrage touched every town, city and village, and every family in the years before the First World War. Deeply entrenched… Continue Reading
http://isj.org.uk/lise-vogel-and-the-politics-of-womens-liberation—Oktober 2014, aus dem Englischen von Rosemarie Nünning1 Mit der wachsenden Wut über Frauenunterdrückung und angesichts der Aktivitäten gegen diese sind auch viele der Argumente aus den 1970er und 1980er Jahren über die Brauchbarkeit der marxistischen Analyse der Frauenunterdrückung wieder… Continue Reading
Abortion has rarely been out of the headlines in 2016. Women have been leading an unprecedented surge of resistance to attacks on already limited rights to access to abortion. Mass protests at both ends of Europe, on its western shores… Continue Reading
A review of Sharon Smith, Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital (Haymarket, 2015), £11.99 Neoliberal austerity is impacting particularly hard on women. Capitalism relies on women not just directly as workers who generate surplus value but also to provide… Continue Reading
A review of Judith Orr, Marxism and Women’s Liberation (Bookmarks, 2015), £9.99 The gains won by the women’s liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, such as the right to divorce and increased reproductive rights, are real material gains. Women… Continue Reading