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
Ireland: No ifs, no buts a woman’s right to choose
13 Jun 2013
Controversy over abortion continues to reverberate throughout Irish society, writes Anne McShane
Porn and crime: Causative or correlative link?
06 Jun 2013
In the wake of the April Jones case Christina Black looks at the role, or not, of 'violent' and 'hardcore' porn in violent crime and murder, and the ensuing media moral panic
Youth: A rounded view of sexuality
30 May 2013
Do children need to be protected from pornography? Christina Black looks at the latest official report
Safe spaces: Fear and harassment as the norm
09 May 2013
As Stuart Hall reminds us, writes Eddie Ford, bourgeois society and its institutions are far less safe for women and children than any far-left group
Alexandra Kollontai: Emancipation through the Russian Revolution
02 May 2013
Alexandra Kollontai kept on fighting for women against overwhelming odds. Anne McShane completes her examination of the role of this inspirational Bolshevik leader
Women and socialism: Bebel’s forgotten legacy
25 Apr 2013
Ben Lewis reviews: Anne Lopes and Gary Roth, 'Mens feminism: August Bebel and the German socialist movement', Amherst, 2000, pp261, £28
Women and revolution: Alexandra Kollontai, a leading fighter for women’s liberation
25 Apr 2013
In the first of two articles, Anne McShane looks at the Bolsheviks most famous writer on the womens question
Neoliberal feminism: Out of the mainstream, into the revolution
18 Apr 2013
Yassamine Mather critiques neoliberal feminism, which is now the dominant mode of thought
Feminism debate: A useless product of 1970s radicalism
11 Apr 2013
From womens liberation to bureaucratic feminism - Mike Macnair examines the process that produced the witch-hunting of rape deniers
Sex review: Left feeling unfulfilled
04 Apr 2013
Janice Sheldon reviews: Kate Gould, 'Exposing phallacy: flashing in contemporary culture', Zero Books, 2012, pp74, £9.99
Feminism: The world of women, like the world of men, is divided
04 Apr 2013
Paul Demarty calls for the unity of men and women in the fight for the self-liberation of the working class
SWP and no platform: Meanwhile, in the real world ...
21 Mar 2013
The intensifying feminist offensive against the far left is the bitter fruit of our collective political mistakes, argues Paul Demarty
Pope Francis: Silence equals complicity
21 Mar 2013
Far from being a new broom or reformer, writes Eddie Ford, the new pope is a reactionary to his marrow
Women and liberation: Is feminism a dirty word?
14 Mar 2013
What would Marx and Engels think of recent events in the SWP, RMT and across the British left? Camilla Power of the Radical Anthropology Group takes to task dinosaur Marxists for refusing to treat rape as a deeply political issue
SWP and feminism: Rape is not the problem
14 Mar 2013
Red-baiting and feminist attacks on the SWP must be resisted, in spite of everything, argues Paul Demarty