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
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
With the grain of the times
11 Oct 2018
Yet more scandals - but Trump stands firm. Paul Demarty urges a more radical reckoning with American politics
Dead end of intersectionality
02 Aug 2018
Only the working class can unify the oppressed, argues Mike Macnair. This is an edited version of his talk at the July 29 London Communist Forum
Where are the women?
26 Jul 2018
Yassamine Mather looks at one area where gender inequality looks set to continue
The degaying of Pride
12 Jul 2018
This year’s Pride parade was embroiled in controversy - a minor miracle, reckons Paul Demarty
Getting beyond capitalism
05 Jul 2018
Mike Macnair completes his critique of intersectionality and identity politics
Race and class
21 Jun 2018
Mike Macnair examines the critiques of intersectionality developed by Adolph Reed Jr and Walter Benn Michaels
A very British cover-up
07 Jun 2018
Conspiracies do happen, as the Jeremy Thorpe scandal proves. And Eddie Ford reckons the establishment might also conspire against Jeremy Corbyn in the event of a Labour victory
Even better than expected
31 May 2018
The left has been timorous when it comes to fighting for abortion rights. Now it should go onto the offensive and demand a secular constitution, along with the confiscation of church wealth, writes Eddie Ford
Our bodies, our choice
24 May 2018
Whatever the result of the referendum, writes James Harvey, the fight for a woman’s right to choose will go on
I'm part of the union
24 May 2018
Peter Purton Champions of equality: trade unions and LGBT rights in Britain Lawrence and Wishart, 2017, pp194, £20
The alternative to patriarchy
03 May 2018
The ‘sex wars’ discussed by Amia Srinivasan are a symptom of a deeper crisis, argues Rex Dunn
No way back to normality
19 Apr 2018
The Stormy Daniels affair is more threatening to Trump than it might appear, writes Paul Demarty