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Why do Marxist feminists oppose liberal feminists’ claims that porn and prostitution are liberating for women?
We must be clear that the sexualisation of women places men in a position of superiority and impedes class struggle, argues MORGAN HORN
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
AS Marxist feminists, we seek to dismantle capitalism in order to liberate women. Large swathes of today’s feminist movement have found their political vision in a university environment and so are often blind to the fact that most women are workers and therefore central to the class struggle.
Fundamentally, their analysis fails to link women’s oppression to the continued existence of capitalism. These middle-class “student activists” seek to reform capitalism so that it is marginally better for women rather than destroy it entirely.
These people often occupy comfy positions in capitalism — there’s a well-trodden path from student activism to “radical” bourgeois commentator writing liberal commentary.
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The legacy of socialist feminists such as Alexandra Kollontai challenges us today to confront an uncomfortable truth: framing prostitution as empowerment lets the abusers of the Epstein class off the hook, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
As Ash Regan’s Unbuyable Bill sparks debate in Scotland, the real issue remains unaddressed: a digitalised sex industry and a neoliberal economy that repackages exploitation as empowerment while leaving women’s material conditions unchanged, argues LAUREN HARPER
AMANDA J QUICK warns about the ever-expanding influence of the sex industry – and the harm it unleashes on both the women involved and society collectively, especially the young