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How to Defeat the Right in the Struggle to Defend Abortion Rights

May 31, 2022Erin Brightwell

Erin Brightwell and Emily McArthur are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. The leaked draft Supreme Court decision that would overturn Roe v. Wade raises urgent and critical questions for the women’s movement, the union movement, the broader left, and anyone who has a stake in reproductive rights. Is it possible to turn back […]

US: With Friends Like These Who Needs Enemies?

November 23, 2020Erin Brightwell

Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. With Democratic Party hopes for a bigger majority in the House dashed by a combination of anti-Trump voters who went with Republicans down ticket and 71 million Trump voters, it didn’t take long for the fireworks in the Democratic House caucus to start going […]

After RBG’s Death: Republicans Move to Consolidate Reactionary Control of the Court

September 30, 2020Erin Brightwell

Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The death of Supreme Court Justice and liberal icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the latest blow to any sense of normalcy in this election year. Trump has moved rapidly to nominate Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg. If she is approved this will solidify […]

US: Trump in Trouble and Biden in Hiding

August 19, 2020Erin Brightwell

Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Workers’ Alternative Urgently Needed 2020 is not the election year that anyone expected. Presidential election politics are now utterly intertwined with the global pandemic that has killed nearly 165,000 people in the US as of this writing and has completely altered life for most […]

Republicans Double Down to Defend Sexual Predator – For Mass Demonstrations to Stop Kavanaugh

September 28, 2018Erin Brightwell

Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Thanks to the power of the #MeToo movement and the courage of Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and now Julie Swetnick, the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, appearing only days ago to be a virtual lock, is now hanging by a […]

Lessons of the Mass Women’s Movement of the ’60s and ’70s

March 8, 2018Rob Darakjian

Erin Brightwell and Rob Darakjian are members of Socialist Alternative in the US. A new women’s movement is emerging in response to the election of the misogynist Donald Trump, starting with the 2017 women’s marches and now with the #MeToo campaign. The potential power of the #MeToo moment has so frightened the political class, the […]

#MeToo – Millions of Women Speak Up

October 30, 2017Erin Brightwell

Erin Brightwell is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Angelina Jolie. Gwyneth Paltrow. Lupita Nyong’o. Ashley Judd. Did any women who worked under Harvey Weinstein not get attacked? Many of the millions or possibly tens of millions of women posting #MeToo on social media, asked the same question; which of us hasn’t been […]