Women & LGBT+

The international movement against femicide grows

From Turkey to South Africa, the scourge of gendered violence is being resisted by a growing movement.

Sani Meier  ·  04 December 2024

Review | Hard Graft

An exhibition exploring the impact of work on the human body, particularly women and the marginalised.

Agnes Finnie  ·  04 December 2024

Review | She Who Struggles

Exploring the role of women in revolutionary and national liberation movements during the 20th century.

Ursula Kempe  ·  04 December 2024

The Swiss women’s strike: a brief history

The origins of the 'feminist strike' in Switzerland

Rosa Favre  ·  01 December 2024

The Swiss women’s strike: where next?

An analysis of the women's strike in Switzerland and perspectives for the struggle

Rosa Favre  ·  01 December 2024

Pakistan: students protest against rape

Student protests following the rape of a student have spread across the country after a police crackdown

Workers Power  ·  04 November 2024

Indian women mobilise to ‘reclaim the night’

Millions of women have organised protests and strikes after the rape and murder of Moumita Debnath

Workers Power  ·  09 September 2024

Resist attacks on LGBT people – London Trans Pride 2024

None of us is free until all of us are free.

Rob Schofield  ·  13 July 2024

Arizona latest state to ban abortion

A woman’s right to choose to terminate their pregnancy lies at the heart of the liberation struggle. Not the Church, not the state, women must decide their fate!

Workers Power  ·  19 April 2024

IWD 2024: step up the fight against war

On IWD2024, redouble the struggle for peace, justice and women's liberation

Workers Power  ·  08 March 2024

Obituary: Dave Lewis (1959–2024)

Dave Lewis, revolutionary socialist and founder of Lesbians & Gays Support the Miners

Workers Power  ·  31 January 2024

Review: Women in revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990

Exhibition at Tate Britain London, running until 9 April 2024.

Workers Power  ·  17 January 2024

Resist the Tories’ carnival of reaction

It’s time for them to go.

George Banks  ·  13 October 2023

Childcare reforms attack unemployed, disabled and single mothers

The devil is in the detail.

Millie Collins  ·  28 March 2023

Defend Trans people

By R Banks and Millie Collins ON 11 FEBRUARY, 16 year old Brianna Ghey was brutally murdered, stabbed to death in Warrington Park by two 15 year olds. Brianna was transgender and had become a prominent representative of the young trans community on TikTok.  Police took four days to declare that the murder ‘might’ be […]

Rob Schofield  ·  09 March 2023

Rapist police off our streets!

By Jeremy Dewar THE METROPOLITAN Police is infested with violent misogynists. This isn’t rhetorical exaggeration. It’s a fact. Twelve serving Met officers have been convicted of sexual offences against women since the murder of Sarah Everard in March 2021, one every two months. Met Commissioner Mark Rowley admits this is only the tip of the […]

Jeremy Dewar  ·  07 February 2023

Childcare in crisis: mothers’ march demands better

By Millie Collins MORE THAN 12,000 people took to the streets across 11 major cities on 29 October to protest the extortionate cost of childcare, demanding much needed reforms to the archaic parental leave system—which Rishi Sunak disgracefully described as a ‘holiday’. The ‘March of the Mummies’ was organised by Pregnant Then Screwed, a charity […]

Millie Collins  ·  02 November 2022

Women’s double burden doubles again

By Millie Collins AFTER 12 YEARS of cuts to wages, pensions and public services, one in five—14.5 million—people live in poverty, including more than four million children. While the richest households saved money during the pandemic, the poorest fell further into debt with no cushion to soften the rising prices today. Research published by the […]

KD Tait  ·  05 July 2022

Roe v Wade overturned: women say—’we will not go back!’

International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Finally, they have done it. On June 24, after fifty years of a limited constitutional right to abortion, American women were robbed of that right. Campaigning under the obscene slogan of ‘the right to life’ and anti-science claims that termination means killing babies, women have been deprived of […]

Workers Power  ·  26 June 2022

US Supreme Court prepares historic attack on abortion rights

By Marcus Otono—Workers Power USA THE RECENT leak of a draft majority opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States repealing the Roe v Wade judgment that legalized abortion rights throughout the United States, has caused an explosion of anger and protests nationwide. The Court will deliver its final ruling in late June or […]

Marcus Otono  ·  31 May 2022

Institutional sexism in the police

The reputation of the Metropolitan Police is in tatters - again.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  20 March 2022

Fighting sexism in the tech sector

Getting organised is the first step

Sam Copley  ·  06 March 2022

Transgender healthcare discrimination – the only solution is workers control

Since the start of the pandemic, trans people have been left in limbo by the NHS, with devastating effects on their physical and mental health.

Alex Rutherford  ·  09 December 2021

Violence against women: workers’ inquiry not judges’ cover-up

By Rebecca Anderson THE TRIAL of Wayne Couzens for the murder of Sarah Everard has shone a spotlight on violence against women and the inability of the police and judicial system to confront the problem. For months after Sarah’s murder the Metropolitan Police and Home Office dismissed any notion that there was a deep-seated prejudice […]

Rebecca Anderson  ·  22 October 2021

Texas abortion ban is a class issue

By Marcus Otono (Nashville, Tennessee) Texas has become the testing ground for a new approach to the nearly 50 year-long battle over abortion rights in the United States. A new law took effect on 1 September which prohibits terminations after the detection of a foetal heartbeat, around six weeks into a pregnancy. There are no […]

Marcus Otono  ·  09 October 2021

Afghan women lead protests against Taliban repression

Afghan women are leading the way in organising anti-Taliban protests in Kabul and other parts of Afghanistan. They are doing what US and allied occupying forces failed to do: stand up to the Taliban.

Minerwa Tahir  ·  12 September 2021

Police officers evade prosecution for domestic violence

Only 43 of 800 accused officers have been prosecuted.

Alex Rutherford  ·  11 July 2021

Rape culture crisis in schools

A number of schools have seen students walk-out in protest.

Millie Collins  ·  11 July 2021

Not one more: the fight to end violence against women

We cannot rely on the police or state.

Urte March  ·  18 March 2021

The pandemic is dragging working-class women back to 2017

The pay gap is widening.

Rebecca Anderson  ·  12 March 2021

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