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WOMAN, LIFE, FREEDOM: International Day for Elimination of Gender Violence 2022
Protest with ROSA International Socialist Feminists to end violence against women and LGBTQ people this 25 November “Woman, life, freedom” - This is the main slogan the masses in Iran have been shouting on the streets after the brutal killing of the 22 year old Jina (Mahsa) Amini. From Kurdistan to Azerbaijan, from Sistan & Baluchestan to Khuzestan - this movement has shaken the entire country and beyond. The protests triggered by state femicide immediately turned into a brav
Hundreds attend Bread & Roses Festival of Socialist Feminism in Dublin
More than 250 people attended the Bread & Roses Festival of Socialist Feminism organised by ROSA / ROSA NI that took place in Dublin on Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 June, 2022. Youthful attendees discussed in about trans liberation, the worldwide struggle for abortion rights, global capitalism’s inflicting of a cost of living crisis on the working and poor masses, anti-war socialist feminists in history, the work of socialist feminist anthropologists and more in packed workshop
Vilification of Amber Heard should be a concern of all who oppose gender-based violence
By Steph Lacey, ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement, Limerick, Ireland From #MeToo, to Ni Una Menos, to the mass outpouring of grief and anger at femicides from Sarah Everard to Sabine Nessa to Ashling Murphy — the desire to end gender-based violence (GBV), have all been really important features of recent years. We have seen the beginnings of collective movements of solidarity against GBV, including workers of all genders taking strike action to demand change, and a discussion
Worldwide socialist feminist struggle needed for abortion rights
International Socialist Alternative and ROSA International Socialist Feminists call for worldwide solidarity a s women, workers and poor people in the USA rise up to defend the right to abortion. The US state - which has falsely claimed to wage war for women’s rights across the world - is now waging war on women within its own borders, a war that has consequences worldwide. We, socialist feminists and workers, build international networks of resistance in Latin America, Afri
25 November: International Day Against Violence Against Women 2021
Statement from ISA’s International Women’s Bureau and ROSA International 2021 has been another year of struggle against sexism, LGBTQphobia and racism, including mass protests and strikes, inspiring examples of solidarity being built amongst workers of all genders. At the Mercedes plant in the Basque Country, there was a strike of 3500 workers after the murder of fellow worker Erika Tavares, demanding an end to gendered violence. In response to anti-abortion bills taken up by
Why Britney Spears’ Struggle Gets An Echo
By Ginger Jentzen, Socialist Alternative USA #FreeBritney Mega-pop star Britney Spears gave twenty-three minutes of testimony at a recent court hearing, and forcefully spoke against the conservatorship used to dramatically limit her rights and access to her earnings. Audience for the #FreeBritney movement — people who believe Spears’ father is holding the 39-year old woman hostage — recently gathered mainstream interest after a widely watched New York Times documentary, “Fram
International Women’s Day 2021: an overview
International Women’s Day (IWD) this year was marked by protests in many parts of the world. These were, however, only the tip of the iceberg of the widespread and deepening anger at the catastrophic situation facing millions of women today - the restrictions on the right to protest and the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic having held back, in many cases, the possibility for truly mass mobilisations. From the recent horrific murder of Sarah Everard in Britain to the near-total ban o
We need socialist feminism against capitalist violence!
25 November 2020, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women Statement of by the ISA’s International Women’s Bureau November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, founded in 1981 after the murder of the Mirabal sisters by the military dictatorship of Trujillo in the Dominican Republic. For us socialist feminists, the fight for an end to violence against women must be an anti-capitalist fight. Violence is only possibl
Global uprisings against oppression – socialist feminism now more than ever
By Emma Quinn Whenever there is a crisis, be it war, climate catastrophe or a pandemic, it is women, people of colour, indigenous populations; the most oppressed and exploited sections of the poor and working class who are worst affected. Lenin put it well: “Capitalist society is and always has been a horror without end”.[1] Now, when the system is in the midst of an unprecedented economic and social crisis where basic needs like healthcare, housing and decent standards of li
Soaring Rates of Domestic Violence and Attacks on Abortion Rights
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August 17, 2020417, article from Socialist Alternative More than 160,000 people have died from COVID-19 in the U.S. Almost 50 million people have filed for unemployment. With dramatic underreporting of deaths and many, including undocumented immigrants, not qualifying for unemployment at all, the already unfathomable scale of this crisis is likely worse than what is being reported. While widespread, the devastation is not being experienced equally. The murd
London Women’s Day convention a big success
On 8 March 2020, Socialist Alternative held its first London-based ‘Bread and Roses - Socialist Feminist Convention’
On March 9th, 36 million women are expected to go on strike in Mexico
Mexico, For a socialist feminism against sexist violence! Alternativa Socialista, ASI Mexico. In the last year, millions of women have taken to the streets to denounce the injustice and violence that the system exercises against them. From #MeToo to the inspiring Green Tide that travels through Latin America initiated in Argentina by the decriminalization of abortion, feminism has shaped the entire world. Mexico, on the contrary, has not been the exception thousands of women
US: Socialist Feminism and the New Women’s Movement
A new women’s movement is emerging in the U.S. and internationally in the context of major threats to women’s hard won gains
US: Escalate the Fight to Defend Reproductive Rights
Last year, nine states passed restrictive abortion bills throughout the south and midwest in the hopes of igniting a relitigation over Roe.
A Marxist Feminist Reply: Class Struggle and Women’s Liberation
In recent years, the global women’s movement has reintroduced the strike as a form of struggle on a mass scale...
25 November: Socialist Feminist Struggle Against Gender Violence!
This article was produced to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November
Britain: Socialist feminism, an idea for the 2020s
Women and men around the world will mark 8 March 2020 as International Women’s Day, with demonstrations, marches and celebrations. The run-u
Founding declaration of ROSA: International Socialist Feminists
All over the world women are fighting back against violence, discrimination and oppression. We must rise from below...