We’re at an interesting (and terrible) moment where we’re witnessing attacks on most every gain working people have made for at least the last half century. The curious exception to that has been the advance of marriage and civil rights for gay and lesbian couples in many U.S. states and core imperialist countries. But while we can celebrate the dismantling of many of the legal barriers to equality, we need to be mindful of the cost assimilation has had on “gay” communities, the movement’s relationship to other progressive causes, and lastly how it measures up to radical ideas of gender and sexual freedom.
Black feminism and intersectionality
29 December 2013, by“Although we are in essential agreement with Marx’s theory as it applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we know that his analysis must be extended further in order for us to understand our specific economic situation as Black women.”
—the Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977
Explaining gender violence in the neoliberal era
28 December 2013, byLet us begin with an image: a naked white man pursuing a low-wage Black female asylum seeker down the corridors of an expensive Manhattan hotel in order to force her to have sex with him. The man, of course, is the then-director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), French politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn, and the woman, thirty-three-year-old Nafissatou Diallo, a housekeeper at Strauss-Kahn’s hotel who was also at the time seeking asylum in the United States from her native Guinea, a former colony of France.
Socialist Feminism – Hidden from Herstory
24 November 2013, byThis paper was presented at the Historical Materialism Conference in London, 10 November 2013, in the panel on “A comparative analysis of socialist/class struggle feminism in France and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s”.
The forgotten history of the “class struggle feminist” current
21 November 2013, byThis paper was presented at the Historical Materialism Conference in London, 10 November 2013, in the panel on “A comparative analysis of socialist/class struggle feminism in France and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s”.
The implications of gender equality at work on female workers from 1968 to the 1980s in France
21 November 2013, byThis paper was presented at the Historical Materialism Conference in London, 10 November 2013, in the panel on “A comparative analysis of socialist/class struggle feminism in France and Britain in the 1970s and 1980s”.
The Matriarchal-Brotherhood
20 September 2013, byThis article was published in the theoretical review Fourth International, Volume 15 No.3, Summer 1954, pp.84-90. This version is republished from the Marxist International Archive Evelyn Reed Archive, transcribed by Daniel Gaido and proofed and corrected by Chris Clayton.
The Myth of Women’s Inferiority
20 September 2013, byThis article was published in the theoretical review Fourth International, Volume 15 No.2, Spring 1954, pp.58-66. This version is republished from the Marxist International Archive Evelyn Reed Archive, transcribed by Daniel Gaido and proofed and corrected by Chris Clayton.
Women Who Won The Right to Vote
19 September 2013, byThis article was published in the theoretical review Fourth International, Volume 16 No.2, Spring 1955, pp.48-56. This version is republished from the Marxist Internet Archive Encyclopedia of Trotskyism. Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
Women in the Chinese Revolution
19 September 2013, byThis article was published in the theoretical review Fourth International, Volume 12 No. 4, July-August 1951, pp.109-113. This version is republished from the Marxist International Archive Encyclopedia of Trotskyism. Transcription & mark-up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.