According to their own survey responses, anti-abortion voters are hostile to gender equality in practically every aspect
According to self-identified “pro-life” advocates, the fundamental divide between those who want to outlaw abortion and those who want to keep it legal comes down to one (...)
The likes of Hillary Clinton have tarnished the name of feminism, associating it with neoliberalism and anti–working-class politics. For Nancy Fraser, feminism has to be about overthrowing corporate power, not giving it a female face.
Recent years have seen an upsurge in the working-class (...)
Women’s March on Washington, January 2017
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” — Florynce Kennedy
The evangelical right believes it has the votes in the U.S. Supreme Court to enable state legislatures to outlaw abortion and no longer needs to settle for simply setting up (...)
Pro-choice groups see an increase in donations and are mobilizing supporters and resources in several states to combat the laws
As strict anti-abortion laws spread across the US, pro-choice Americans are organizing on multiple fronts to protect women’s access to abortions: from local women’s (...)
The Alabama abortion ban and the spate of draconian “heartbeat” laws are vicious attacks on reproductive rights. We have to fight back with an unequivocal demand: free abortion on demand.
Mothers’ Day came this year with a cruel twist of fate. In recent weeks, Georgia, Ohio, Kentucky, and (...)
It has been a rather horrific couple of weeks for women’s reproductive rights in the US. Convinced that they finally have the means to overturn both Roe vs Wade and Doe vs Bolton (1973) due to numbers on the Supreme Court, several pieces of legislation designed to undermine women’s right to (...)
Janet Porter won a major victory when the strictest law in the US passed in Ohio – the latest step in a fight she is taking global.
Janet Porter is a woman who believes life begins at conception and homosexuality is a choice. She has said gay marriage caused Noah’s floods, and was the architect (...)
Doctors argue that the bans, known as ‘fetal heartbeat’ bills, are medically inaccurate and use misleading language
High-profile gynecologists are criticizing the framing of six-week abortion bans, known as “fetal heartbeat” bills, as medically inaccurate.
The bans, now moving through nearly a (...)
In the weeks after the 2019 convention of the International Socialist Organization (ISO), and in the days after the revelation that members of the 2013 Steering Committee had interfered with, overturned and silenced an independent committee’s finding that an ISO member had committed rape, (...)
Angela Davis deserves a shoutout this Women’s History Month, and every month. Active and influential in international freedom struggles for nearly six decades, her speeches and writings have valuable lessons to teach us about the major injustices that we face in this era of heightened racism, (...)
The reason goes to the heart of inclusive, democratic movement building.
For the last two years, come the middle of January, between 3 and 4 million people have massed in the streets of the United States in an outpouring of raw anger and disgust with the Trump administration. They’ve marched in (...)
Kim Moody’s “Rank and File Strategy” has influenced much of DSA’s approach to labor organizing. To draw out what he calls socialist “class consciousness,” Moody recommends fomenting member-led struggles in unions that advance self-empowerment. By joining “transitional organizations,” or rank-and-file (...)
CANCEL KAVANAUGH. WALK OUT AGAINST PATRIARCHY. WE ARE SURVIVORS, BELIEVE US.
Join a National Walkout from all work, waged and unwaged, on Thursday, October 4 at 4:00 pm to protest the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
In the wake of Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination and (...)
The Senate hearings on Brett Kavanaugh have transformed U.S. politics. Elizabeth Schulte and Alan Maass look at the fight to come and what our side has to do now.
LAST THURSDAY in Washington, D.C., was a collision of two worlds: Their world of power and arrogant privilege ran head-on into ours (...)
Many things can spark a wildfire, but it’s what happens afterward that determines whether that fire will rage. In the case of the #MeToo campaign, the dozens of women who stepped forward to talk about their experiences of having been sexually assaulted by Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was (...)
Even as many mainstream liberals and feminists recently celebrated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which solidified the legal right to abortion - for those who can afford it - economic inequality continues to limit abortion access. Being unable to access wanted abortion deepens poverty and (...)
Opening ceremmony. Candy Brings Plenty second from left. Photo by Friderike Heuer
On Sunday January 21, Portland’s streets were filled by Indigenous women, men, and two-spirited people marching with their allies to honor Indigenous Womxn Warriors, to remember and demand justice for Missing and (...)
At major rallies in Washington, New York, LA and beyond, some said Trump’s ‘disastrous’ first year has left women angrier than ever.
A year after millions of women and men demonstrated in cities around the globe in an extraordinary rebuke of Donald Trump, crowds returned to the streets on (...)
Nicole Colson rounds up reports from the Women’s Marches mobilized to protest one year of Trump—and looks at the debates about building an effective opposition.
“Last year it felt like a funeral. This year it feels like a resistance.”
Those words—from one of the many hundreds of thousands of (...)
The latest example of the power of #MeToo moment came at this year’s Golden Globe Awards, as celebrities wore black to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual abuse and assault, and presenters and honorees alike spoke out about the violence and discrimination women face. Actors brought (...)
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