Trazando un curso revolucionario a medida que se agudiza la lucha de clases
Socialist Feminism
FSP National Convention
Charting a revolutionary course.
Feminist revolutions in Iran and Afghanistan hold lessons for the world
What can be learned from brave women activists and protesters fighting for their rights abroad, and what can be done to help.
Mortalmente serios: líderes del DSA “bromean” acerca del asesinato de Trotsky en reveladores tuits
León Trotsky, el colíder de V.I. Lenin de la Revolución Rusa, tenaz organizador del socialismo internacional y pionero en la agitación antifascista, murió hace más de 80 años. Aún así,… Read more »
DSAers mock Trotsky’s murder
Democratic Socialists of America leaders tweet “jokes” about Trotsky’s assassination, but violence against leftists is no laughing matter.
Book Review – Ann Curthoys, For And Against Feminism: A Personal Journey into Feminist Theory and History
For and Against Feminism is not simply a history. It is also a present and a future. The final section of the book, Coming to Terms With Our Colonial Past, in many ways points to directions for future theoretical work.
Andrea Dworkin, Intercourse, New York, Free Press (1988). 326 pages.
Dworkin offers no hope for women. She identifies “contextual reforms” and political programs, only to dismiss them as off-base and futile. So, she indiscriminately lumps together demands for economic equity or rape laws that work with calls for electing women to political office and athletic excellence, condemning them all for failing to “address the question of whether intercourse itself can be an expression of sexual equality.”
The Mismeasure of Men: A Socialist Feminist Analysis of “Male Aggression”
Men are not naturally aggressive. Biology is the destiny of neither women nor men. The ideology that measures people with the yardstick of determinism, which reduces people to either animals or robots, is both insulting and arrogant; it complements the current system of wage slavery well.
International Women’s Day: Ghetto Festival or Front Line of the Struggle for Women’s Liberation?
One is that we are all lesbians or a least celibate women who prefer to socialise mainly with other women. This has become a stumbling block to the movement. Instead of clear political demands about fighting the oppression of lesbians that we expect all who support women’s liberation to take up and fight for, we’ve got a bizarre combination of lesbian political invisibility but an underlying assumption that in our lifestyles we are all dykes. We’ve got to make IWD political; we have to address the issues of the day — those that people who aren’t at IWD are concerned about or fighting around.
Women’s Emancipation and Permanent Revolution
Revolutionary feminism is the only program and method that can truly unite the class and the Trotskyist movement, for it is a unity based on equality and mutual respect and not on a lower caste sacrificing itself for an upper caste. Women, people of colour, lesbians, youth, elders and differently abled just happen to be the most exploited sectors of the proletariat. We as Trotskyists are obliged to hoist our banner with them.
