Remembering Red Ken
Ken Livingstone’s legacy in London reminds us just how much democratic socialist leadership can do for a single city.
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Rosa’s Mail
The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg reveal a revolutionary who was deeply committed and defiantly humane.
Happy Hookers
Sex workers and their would-be saviors.
The Market Goddesses
With Ashley Madison, capitalism has reached a new low: the commodified Ideal Woman.
Bernie in the Age of Clinton
Seven tidbits from Bernie Sanders’s memoir, Outsider in the White House.
Rosa Lives
The revolutionary thought of Rosa Luxemburg continues to inform and inspire anticapitalist movements today.
Between Rojava and Washington
The Kurdish struggle has been undermined by world-power clashes over the future of Syria.
Megyn Kelly Is Still Terrible
Megyn Kelly's handful of admirable stances at Fox don't make up for years of peddling reactionary, racist nonsense.
Not Working for Trump
Why feminists are calling for a national women's strike during Donald Trump's inauguration.
Repealing the “Right to Object”
Today marks 40 years since Italy legalized abortion. But the promises of the law remain unfulfilled.
Abortion Is Our Right To Strike
Abortion isn’t a “cultural” issue. The production of children, and who will pay for it, is a key economic battlefront.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness
Jo Freeman’s “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” brilliantly details how movement organizations founded on “structurelessness” and “leaderlessness” can give rise to authoritarianism and invisible hierarchies. We reprint her classic essay here in full.
The Day Women Brought Iceland to a Standstill
On October 24, 1975 over 90 percent of Icelandic women refused to work. The aim: to show how much society depended on women’s labor, from farms and factories to the home.
How Class-Conscious Women Garment Workers Shaped the Movement for Women’s Suffrage
On the one-hundredth anniversary of American women’s right to vote, let’s remember the working-class socialist suffragists who struggled for the franchise. And let’s devote the next hundred years to realizing their vision.
What Ruth Bader Ginsburg Learned From Swedish Social Democracy
The seeds for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s pioneering sex-discrimination Supreme Court briefs were planted in the early years of her legal career of the 1960s, from an unlikely source: Sweden, under the prime ministership of social democrat Olof Palme.
La Pasionaria, Spanish Anti-Fascism’s Greatest Orator, Remained Defiant in Exile
During Spain’s Civil War, Dolores Ibárruri was famed worldwide as La Pasionaria, the brilliant orator who stirred anti-fascists’ souls. Fleeing to Moscow in 1939, she soon became the exiled Communists’ leader — both political guide for a defeated party and a “Spanish mother” confronting the expectations of her male comrades.
The Wollongong Jobs for Women Campaign Shows the Power of Working-Class Solidarity
In Wollongong in the 1980s, four young socialist activists founded the Jobs for Women campaign to take on the mighty Port Kembla steelworks, demanding equal employment rights. The solidarity they built achieved a historic victory that reverberated across Australia.
How Tunisia’s Women Communists Challenged the Colonial Order
Tunisia under French colonial rule was deeply undemocratic, with a social order built on formalized racial categories and the near exclusion of women from public life. But women Communists refused to accept a merely subordinate role — and built the only organizations that united Tunisians across the official racial divides.
Australian Women Don’t Need Scott Morrison’s Empty Rhetoric — They Need Economic Justice
Scott Morrison has responded to scandals over misogyny and sexual assault with token gestures and hollow words that won’t get near the root of the problem. In order to challenge sexism, we have to empower working-class women through economic justice and redistributive policies.
The Queen’s Gambit Created a Fictional Female Chess Grandmaster. The Soviet Union Created Dozens of Real Ones.
Soviet chess grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili has announced that she is suing Netflix for belittling her achievements in The Queen’s Gambit. Her career shows we don’t need fictional rags-to-riches stories but welfare states that allow us to realize our true potential.