Walk-out against sexual harassment at Google

Anonymous Google worker, San Francisco Bay Area. #MeToo hit the tech world as thousands, of Google employees, led by women, organized a historic walkout from work on November 1 at 11:10 AM. Spurred by a October 25 New York Times article highlighting that Google “systemically allowed senior executives accused of sexual misconduct to leave the […]

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Clara Zetkin: The fascist threat

Iain Dalton is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). The rise of fascism in Italy in the early 1920s represented a new, extremely dangerous threat to the workers’ movement. It provoked urgent debate in the early years of the Communist International – before its policy of workers’ unity to defeat […]

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

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 […]

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Argentina: Abortion rights bill falls but the struggle goes on

Maria Clara Ferreira is a member of Liberdade, Socialismo e Revolução (CWI in Brazil). The women’s movement in Argentina has a proud history of unity in action to fight to legalizing abortion. It was this struggle which led, eleven years ago, to a bill being drafted for parliament, which has now been debated more than […]

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Fighting oppression – a Marxist viewpoint

Laura Fitzgerald is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). A materialist analysis of roots & nature of oppression First Published in Ireland in October, 2014 Marxism is a philosophy and world view that seeks to materially analyse reality. Although it was not possible for Marx and Engels themselves to adequately address all […]

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Ireland: Historic Victory to Repeal Abortion Laws

Statement by Socialist Party (Ireland MPs) Ruth Coppinger, Paul Murphy and Mick Barry. Ireland voted by 66.4% to repeal the 8th Amendment, which had banned abortion in Ireland. This is a huge victory for a grass roots moment, in which the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) had a proud role.  The dramatic and clear-cut ‘Yes’ […]

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Socialist Alternative Magazine #9

Build Homes We Need Housing Crisis Stopping Kinder Morgan Pipeline France 1968 Ontario’s Election Women Fight Back … and more from Canada and the world If you would like to order copy(ies) contact: [email protected]

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Brazil: PSOL councillor Marielle Franco murdered in Rio de Janeiro

From mourning to struggle On 14 March, Marielle Franco, a veteran member of PSOL in Rio de Janeiro, was barbarically executed in the city centre. Anderson Pedro Gomes, the driver of her car, was also killed in the attack. Police investigation identified 9 gun shots in the back window of the car, showing that the […]

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Spain: Millions on the streets against sexism and capitalist oppression

Historic feminist strike, now continue the struggle! The feminist strike on 8 March was unprecedented. Never in the history of the class struggle in the Spanish state have such a deep and massive mobilisation against the oppression of working class women, against inequality and violence against women. Hundreds of marches took place from morning to […]

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

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 […]

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