Category: Gender & Gender Politics

Legal scholar Elizabeth Rapaport analyzes the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Davison and Pospieszyńska discuss the struggles for abortion rights in Poland and Argentina, and their lessons for the US feminist movement.

We, feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation.

The Christian nationalist roots of the anti-abortion movement

We don’t win against oppression by being nice. We win by proudly violating the patriarchal, xenophobic, racist, sexist, classist norms of capitalism.

Westerners need to understand the perspective of Ukrainian feminists.

The significance of the Alito draft

Ferguson lays out the issues, doesn’t hide behind political labels, and advances a sophisticated analysis that crystallizes some contemporary thinking.

The collection of essays delivers a relatively cohesive critique of Marx’s ideas and influence—one that is, to my mind, balanced if not always fair. 

Sultani discusses women’s struggle in Afghanistan, historically and against the Taliban regime today.

The impending Fall of Roe is, at this point, more theoretical than actual for millions of people.

The shortcomings of the reproductive rights movement are related to racism within the major reproductive rights groups.

It is a safe bet that Roe v. Wade will not fare well in the Supreme Court’s 2021-22 Term.

The history of the erosion of Roe v. Wade is marked by misguided and failed movement reliance on electoral politics and legalistic strategy.

The Taliban’s takeover of power after the United States’ brutal twenty-year imperialist occupation is a catastrophe for women not only in Afghanistan but throughout the world.

An Interview with a representative of RAWA inside Afghanistan

How should anti-imperialists relate to the coming to power of the misogynist Taliban regime in Afghanistan?

The politics of the march in NYC were progressive, with a strong presence of Democratic organizations, such as Indivisible and several independent Democratic clubs.

Socialists and feminists (and socialist feminists) can profoundly benefit from the legacy of Sylvia Pankhurst who is equally deserving of the contemporary attention given to Rosa Luxemburg and Alexandra Kollontai.

The Texas law will not only affect the seven million women of childbearing age in Texas, but could also become a model for other states. It could also spark a new women’s movement, letting people know that Women’s Lives Matter.

We think readers of New Politics may want to know about (and participate in)  the inaugural Historical Materialism East Asia conference (online).