The War on Afghan Women
This article is based on a speech made at the second International socialist feminist conference of ISA, October 23. The hasty withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan this summer, as Kabul fell into the hands of the Taliban, represents the most humiliating debacle for US imperialism since the fall of Saigon in 1975. In Vietnam, […]
Release Peng Shuai
Tennis star Peng Shuai’s disappearance and sudden staged/chaperoned reappearance in China has become a major international crisis for Xi Jinping’s nominally ‘Communist’ but in reality ultra-repressive, right-wing and sexist regime. Peng’s case has shone a spotlight on women’s oppression in China. One in four married women have been beaten by their husbands according to the […]
Cadiz Metalworkers Show Way Forward for Whole Working Class in Spanish State
The growing class polarisation in the Spanish state is beginning to break out into the open. During the pandemic, unrest was mostly kept under control, but the burning anger at the massive and many inequalities in society is finding expression amongst the organised working class. The magnificent and militant indefinite strike by more than 20,000 […]