A review of Breaking Our Chains: Women, Marxism and the Path to Liberation by Sarah Bates, Judy Cox and Sally Campbell (bookmarks, 2026), £10.00 “It’s the pussy-grabbers’ world—we just live in it,” quipped Marina Hyde back in February 2026.1 It… Continue Reading
A review of The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography by Marcello Musto (Stanford University Press, 2020), £18.89 And The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism by Kevin B. Anderson (Verso, 2025), £19.99 More than… Continue Reading
Sexism is on the rise.1 “Misogyny is 2025’s Biggest Trend”, claimed Glamour.2 “Misogyny has reached ‘epidemic scale’ among young people, education chiefs say”, the Independent reported.3 Powerful currents within the global far right glorify and promote violence against women. Others… Continue Reading
A review of Enemy Feminism: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses Against Liberation by Sophie Lewis (Haymarket, 2025), £14.99 I finished reading Enemy Feminism on the day the British Supreme Court ruled that equal rights legislation applied exclusively to biological sex. Watching… Continue Reading
The global surge of attacks on abortion rights has been a wake-up call for pro-choice activists in Australia.1 In June 2022, thousands rallied in solidarity with women in the United States when Roe v Wade was overturned by the US… Continue Reading
Trump’s second election victory has dealt a severe blow to the idea that people see politics through the prism of identity.1 Kamala Harris did not win enough votes from women or black men to secure victory. Commentators and activists are… Continue Reading
One of the campaign ads used in the 2024 presidential elections was: “Kamala Harris is for they/them. President Trump is for you”.1 The slogan both taps into the transphobia promoted by the political right in the “culture wars” and appeals… Continue Reading
The history of women’s activism in nationalist movements in Palestine has been eviscerated or marginalised at best.1 Yet, women have played a central role in the Palestinian struggle against occupation by the British and then the Israelis dating back to… Continue Reading
Across the Middle East, there has been a strong tradition of women’s resistance and activism against imperialism for more than a century.1 In Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, this resistance against colonial oppressors was first against the British and then… Continue Reading
A review of The Communist Women’s Movement 1920-1922: Proceedings, Resolutions and Reports, Mike Taber and Daria Dyakonova (eds) (Brill, 2023), £164 The Communist Women’s Movement (CWM) is little known today, but it became a significant force in the international campaign… Continue Reading