Society & Culture > Gender & sexuality
Quotas harm the cause
27 Feb 2014
The left should not succumb to neoliberalisms phoney version of equality, argues Yassamine Mather
Living in fear
18 Mar 2021
The murder of Sarah Everard has become a symbol for the violence, threats and everyday sexism suffered by women, writes Eddie Ford
SUPPLEMENT: Women’s Day established
04 Mar 2021
March 8 2021 marks 110 years since International Women’s Day was first commemorated by the working class movement. What follows is what we believe to be the first English translation of a report of the 1910 International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen, which passed the resolution to establish the event as a regular feature in the international socialist calendar.
SUPPLEMENT: Reclaim the festival
04 Mar 2021
It is not enough to bemoan the corporate feminists for usurping International Women’s Day, writes Anne McShane. We must show that socialism is a real alternative
A world without gender
14 Jan 2021
‘Queer theory’ actually obstructs the fight for sexual equality. Amanda MacLean insists on a materialist analysis
Getting out of the culture wars
10 Dec 2020
The court decision against the Tavistock clinic has reignited the battle over trans rights. Paul Demarty looks at the confusion
A barometer of progress
02 Apr 2020
NEP had profoundly negative results for the struggle for women’s emancipation, writes Anne McShane.
Class and women’s liberation
12 Mar 2020
Like anti-racism, International Women’s Day has been colonised by the bourgeoisie, writes Eddie Ford.
Philosophy, Marxism and gender ideology
30 May 2019
Rex Dunn makes a contribution to our ongoing debate. He argues that genderism stems from working class defeats and poststructuralist subjectivism
Out of the dark ages
30 May 2019
While the divorce referendum has resulted in a marginal improvement, writes Anne McShane, the absence of a fighting working class is still making itself felt
Sex is not psyche
09 May 2019
Amanda MacLean replies to Richard Farnos and Finlay Scott Gilmore
Against biological determinism
02 May 2019
Finlay Scott Gilmour responds to Amanda MacLean’s critique of genderism
Decoupled from reality
18 Apr 2019
Genderist ideology is based on flawed science and worse logic, argues Amanda MacLean
Women’s rights and class struggle
07 Mar 2019
Forty years ago Iranian women rebelled against the Islamic government. We should not only remember their struggle: we should uphold the original aims of International Women’s Day, says Yassamine Mather
The will to liberate
10 Jan 2019
Neglect of the woman question in the early Soviet republic was not the result of isolation and economic backwardness, argues Anne McShane
A new ship with a new crew
11 Oct 2018
Behind the Brett Kavanaugh scandal Rex Dunn sees the decline of capitalism and a fragmented feminist movement that fails to recognise the necessity of socialism