By CHRISTINE EVANS, Workers Power USA The incoming Trump administration has committed itself to deepening the current attacks on the rights of women and other oppressed sectors of the population. The direction in which Trump and his allies seem to be headed may be glimpsed in “Project 2025,” a document drafted last year by some […]
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By Connie Frankish and Martin Ralph “Where has all this wokeness come from?” “Why do people just identify as whatever these days?” “How are there so many trans nowadays?” The arrogance of many Christians and political leaders like Donald Trump ask why must the trans community centre and share their narratives? It is because centuries […]
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On Saturday 18 January Connie Frankish was invited to speak by the ‘National Women’s March’ on trans issues. The Liverpool rally and march was attended by more than 1000 people, mainly young women. Later many congratulated Connie on her speech. The national UK Women’s March took place in 23 locations. One of the organisers in […]
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By Connie Frankish As a trans person, I am accustomed to feeling unsafe. Albeit I am comparatively privileged in that the UK currently ranks tenth in the world for trans people to live, only beaten out by the usual suspects such as Canada, Sweden, and the Netherlands. But the current UK trans climate feels palpably […]
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Workers Voice, U.S. In the U.S., we are experiencing a moment of reactionary upsurge against women and the LGBTQI+ community. These frontal attacks have the most immediate and devastating effect on the most oppressed sectors of the country, in particular working-class, immigrant, black, and indigenous peoples. The disintegration of democratic rights happens within a context […]
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face destitution, poor mental health and barriers to safe abortion in host countries. Olena O’Connell and Mariia Goubernik Olena and Mariia are from Ukraine, they live in the UK Russia’s war against Ukraine which began in 2014 and became a full-scale assault on the country on the 24th of February 2022 has brought death and […]
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Working Nine to Five? Addressing gendered inequality and discrimination in UK workplaces and across Labour movements March 7, 2023 Dr Rhona Bridget O’Brien Stubborn and persistent workplace inequalities are gendered and intersect with age, class, disability, ethnicity and sexual orientation in the UK, in spite of the implementation of the Equal Pay Act (1970) and […]
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Every March 8 we fight for women’s rights across the world. Yet, this year’s M8 is not one more on the calendar. We are going through the third year of the pandemic, an avoidable catastrophe that exposes the criminality of capitalism which is crueler to us. There are plenty of reasons which are increasingly deepening […]
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International Socialist League In 2022 sexism, violence and abuse continues to rise and blight and control the lives of women without any possibility of going away. And the reality of Black women’s experiences means that they experience oppression, abuse and violence simultaneously through both sexism and racism. Since the pandemic there has been a huge […]
Read MoreInternational Socialist League Women’s Committee Just days after 8th March, and the sexism and misogyny that define our society has shown itself in the most extreme of cases. The murder of Sarah Everard has sickened the country, and the talk that is dominating the streets, social media and mainstream media has shifted to the focus […]
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