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
Trans liberation and Marxism
14 Nov 2024
Ranging from sci-fi thought experiments to the latest theoretical disputes, Mike Macnair explains why class and building solidarity is vital
Online Communist Forum, Sunday November 3 5pm
31 Oct 2024
Further criminalising speech
18 Apr 2024
Tory opposition to the Scottish ‘hate crime’ act is about protecting their ‘traditional right’ to stir up hatred. Once it was Jews and Huguenots. Now it is illegal migrants, trans activists and marchers who oppose genocide in Gaza. But, asks Mike Macnair, what the hell is the SWP doing with its call for prosecutions?
Demography is destiny?
28 Sep 2023
Family, home and nation politicians gathered in Budapest to bemoan falling birth rates and rising levels of migration. Kevin Bean stands up for the political economy of the working class
Knavery and folly
08 Jun 2023
Mike Macnair considers the latest stage in the Tory culture-war campaign for freedom of (only) Conservative speech
Cancelling the dead
25 May 2023
Eric Gill’s Prospero and Ariel has been vandalised yet again. Mike Macnair looks at the politics of attacking soft targets
Disenchanted with the west
18 May 2023
Yassamine Mather gives her impressions of Turkey after 20 years of AKP rule and the evident failure of secularism from above
A tale of two liars
18 May 2023
Despite the court judgment over defamation and sexual assault, he has come roaring back with a triumphant CNN ‘town hall’ performance. But, argues Daniel Lazare, the liberal bourgeois media is no more reliable than Trump’s fact-free claims
Yet more lies
13 Apr 2023
The Tories are way behind in opinion polls and have therefore turned to culture war issues such as trans people and further curbing free speech. Mike Macnair eviscerates what passes for their arguments
Tailism cannot deliver
09 Mar 2023
By clearing away misconceptions and starting from our common class interests we can produce a workable approach. Mike Macnair concludes his series
Effective collectivity is key
02 Mar 2023
Mike Macnair argues that we all - not least trans people - need democratic decision-making to ensure common actions and common goals
How not to win arguments
23 Feb 2023
Counterfire is in upheaval over the trans issue. Paul Demarty calls for serious debate, not heresy-hunting
Gender, class and capitalism
23 Feb 2023
Mike Macnair argues that the emancipation of trans people requires the overthrow of bourgeois rule
Moving towards the positive
16 Feb 2023
Tory culture wars have deep roots and deadly consequences. Mike Macnair digs down into history and links the oppression of women and trans people
Clearing the ground
09 Feb 2023
Getting out of the ‘gender recognition’ trap requires breaking with the foundations of the arguments behind it, argues Mike Macnair