Cesar Chavez Revelations – A Mirror of Society’s Values
The recent revelation of sexual abuse by Cesar Chavez is the latest example of a man misusing his power. Workers’ organizations need to remember that we are fighting to end all forms exploitation.
Epstein Survivors: Let’s Follow Their Lead!
The lack of justice for survivors of abuse by Epstein and his associates shows that the government is not truly interested in helping them.
The System Will Not Bring Us Justice
The Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs ruling was a massive disappointment, and a reminder that the carceral system, far from delivering justice, often serves to protect wealth and power. Despite the rightful public scrutiny of Combs’s violence, he was found not guilty on charges of racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking. The jury of eight men and four […]
Desde Argentina al Mundo: Diez Años del Movimiento Ni Una Menos
Hace diez años, el 3 de junio de 2015, miles de mujeres salieron a las calles de Argentina coreando «Ni Una Menos». El detonante fue el brutal feminicidio de una joven, pero el fuego se extendió rápidamente más allá de sus fronteras. Se convirtió en un grito de lucha no solo contra la violencia de […]
From Argentina to the World: Ten Years of Ni Una Menos Movement
Ten years ago, on June 3, 2015, thousands of women took to the streets of Argentina chanting “Ni Una Menos”—not one (woman) less. The spark was the brutal femicide of a young woman, but the fire quickly spread beyond borders. It became a rallying cry not only against gender-based violence but against the social system […]
Defense of Trans Rights is Part of Larger Struggle
In recent years, attacks on LGBTQ people and specifically the transgender community have spread and intensified around the world. Here in the United States, right-wing religious organizations stoke hysteria over alleged men participating in women’s sports, over a few trans athletes possibly gaining unfair advantages over women, and over supposed indoctrination and mutilation of unsuspecting […]
International Women’s Day: Now is a Time to Use Our Power!
March 8 is International Women’s Day. It is a global celebration of women fighting for a better life. This is particularly important now when women are under multiple attacks by the MAGA regime in the U.S., attacks that have global implications. Reactionary forces won’t be satisfied with denying women freedom through abortion bans. We can expect attacks […]
“Pro-life” policy kills
The infant death rate has increased by 7% across the U.S. since the Supreme Court passed the Dobbs decision, which allowed states to restrict abortion access and reproductive care. The same pediatric study found the mortality rate increased by 10% for infants born with health complications. This is just one study in a growing field […]
Lilly Ledbetter Spoke Out for Fair Pay and Women’s Rights
Lilly Ledbetter, an unexpected yet decisive fighter for women’s rights, died last weekend at age 86. Ledbetter was hired in 1979 as a supervisor at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company in Gadsden, Alabama where she worked for 19 years. There, she was harassed and propositioned by a male co-worker, and when she told her supervisors, she was mocked […]
France: Gisèle Pelicot Gives a Voice to All Women Fighting Against This Society
Gisèle Pelicot gives a voice to all women as she publicly testifies against 51 men who raped her.
New Delhi Women and Doctors Demand No More Violence
Women and doctors held demonstrations in New Delhi, after the rape and murder of a junior doctor.
Transphobia Hurts Us All – Inside and Outside of the Olympics
The 2024 Olympics played the same old tune of gender discrimination and transphobia. Despite it’s claim of being the “largest, gender equal sporting event in the world,” transphobia still managed to make its way to the games. Due to subjective ideas of who is and is not a woman, oppressive surveillance has for years been […]
Harvey Weinstein’s Conviction Overturned: Exposing the Faults in the System
Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape conviction was overturned, continuing a pattern of impunity for the rich and powerful.
Arizona’s Abortion Ban
On Tuesday, April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled that an old law from 1864 banning abortions could be enforced. There are no exceptions for rape or incest. The law that dates back to before Arizona became a state criminalizes medical professionals who provide abortions or abortion drugs. It punishes them with prison sentences of […]
Nothing Sweet About Working in the Sugar Industry
For centuries, the sugar industry and the slave labor system that produced the world’s sugar, shaped the global economy and condemned millions – from Brazil, the Caribbean islands, Louisiana and more – to short, brutal lives of labor. Now, a recent New York Times and Fuller Project investigation entitled “The Brutality of Sugar: Debt, Child […]
International Women’s Day: Give Us Bread, But Give Us Roses, Too!
March 8th is International Women’s Day. This is a day to commemorate the working women who have struggled and fought to better their conditions. Today in the United States, the attacks on abortion and reproductive rights continue. The Alabama Supreme Court recently ruled that all “unborn children are ‘children’” and that an embryo in a […]
A Worsening Child Care Crisis in 2024
Parents across the country faced increasing child care costs in 2023. Many, especially women, had to leave their jobs because these costs became too expensive on top of rent, the usual bills, and other paid necessities. The challenge of finding accessible and affordable child care is not going to disappear this year. Federal relief funding […]
Abortion: Our Bodies – Our Rights – Our Choice!
Since the U.S. Supreme Court decision to remove federal protections for legal access to abortion, abortion access has declined nationwide. Currently, 14 states have complete bans, and eight have strict restrictions – almost half of all states. Some laws being enforced date back to the 1800s, and others criminalize people who travel for care or […]
No Court Can Save Us; Only We Can!
Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother, is the latest victim of Texas’s near-total abortion ban. After she made multiple emergency room visits and her health worsened, Cox and her attorneys requested she be provided a legal abortion, and won a district court’s approval. Within hours, the Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton warned hospitals against performing the procedure, and […]
Access to Reproductive Rights Depends on Us
The November 7 elections affirmed something we already knew: a solid majority of people in the United States support people’s right to an abortion and the larger right to make their own decisions about their bodies and their healthcare. In the typically “red” states of Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Ohio, voters either voted against the […]
Woman, Life, Freedom: One Year Since Mahsa Amini’s Murder
It has been one year since the murder of Mahsa Amini, which sparked mass protests in Iran against the “morality police”.
Film Review: Barbie
Barbie is a film about a pink-studded plastic doll from a surreal land where everything seems perfect so long as you don’t question it. When she ventures into the human world, namely Los Angeles, she comes face to face with the equally surreal nature of this society. In Barbieland, everything is possible if you’re Barbie. […]
Women Fight Back Against Texas Abortion Ban
Last week, court hearings were held on Zurawski v. Texas, marking the first time patients denied abortions sued a state since the overturn of Roe v. Wade. Fifteen women, along with the Center for Reproductive Rights, filed a lawsuit against Texas after being forced to endure tragic and high-risk pregnancies to term. They are rightfully arguing that the […]
Right-Wing Courts Move to Ban Medication Abortion Nationwide
Last week in Texas, a Trump-appointed judge placed a nationwide ban on the use of the drug mifepristone, which is used in medication abortions. Over half of all abortions in the U.S. use oral medication, rather than a clinical procedure. The drugs used for medication abortions – mifepristone and misoprostol – have been F.D.A.-approved since 2000. […]
Republicans Set Their Sights on Banning Medication Abortions
With Roe v. Wade overturned, abortion is now banned or severely restricted in over 18 states, with more on the way. Now, right-wing efforts to ban abortion medication, are intensifying. Over half of all abortions in the U.S. use oral medication, rather than a medical procedure. The drugs used for medication abortions, mifepristone and misoprostol, […]
CDC Report on Teen Depression: This System is Making us Sick
A CDC report released on Feb. 13 told us that there is a terrible rise in teen depression, especially for girls. Specifically, in the U.S. nearly: These findings show high and worsening levels of persistent sadness or hopelessness across all racial and ethnic groups. We can’t be sure of all of the causes of this. […]
Roe at 50: The Anniversary that Wasn’t
January 22 marked the 50th anniversary of the 1973 landmark US Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, in which the Court ruled that people had the right to choose an abortion. But in June 2022, the Supreme Court ruled to overturn Roe v. Wade, upending five decades of legal precedent. Since then, Republican-controlled state legislatures […]
Netflix Movie “Moxie” Provides Example of Youth Organizing against Sexism
Moxie is a movie on Netflix about a group of high school women who stand up to sexism at their school. The main character, Vivian, is inspired by a new student at her school whose response to a discussion in class on the novel The Great Gatsby is to question why they are reading a […]
“Don’t Be Afraid! We’re All Together!” – The Struggle in Iran Deepens
Last month, the Iranian morality police murdered 22-year old Mahsa Amini for the crime of not wearing her hijab properly. Since then, mass protests have taken place throughout the country against this outrage without signs of slowing down. While young people and women have been incredibly vocal throughout, we’re now seeing the struggle move through […]
A Feminist Writer Wins The Nobel Prize for Literature: Annie Ernaux
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded last week to the French author Annie Ernaux. She is only the 17th woman to be awarded the prize since its creation in 1901. This is worth noting not only because she is a woman and a brilliant writer, but also because she is an unabashed feminist and […]
Iran: The Women Lead a Social Revolt
October 10, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA, Translated from French. For a month now throughout Iran, the insurgent population has been confronting a ferocious dictatorship. The deaths can be counted in the dozens, the arrests in the thousands. On September 16, the so-called morality police arrested a […]
Abortion in Arizona is Now Illegal. We Must Refuse These Attacks!
On Friday, September 23, a judge lifted a nearly 50 year old injunction that blocked a virtually complete ban on abortions. So getting a safe and legal abortion in Arizona is now impossible, except by breaking the law. Needless to say, this is a scary time to have a uterus, or know someone who does, […]
French Editorial: Backing Its Women, Iran has Erupted!
September 26, 2022 editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the NPA. Translated from French. On September 16, a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini died at the hands of Iran’s morality police. Her crime was to have worn her veil “inappropriately.” Some Iranian women – whose images have been seen around the […]
Iran: Women Revolt against Police Murder
The women of Iran have set the country on fire politically. Why? They are outraged by the death of a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, who died as a consequence of being detained by police for not wearing her hijab, or headscarf, according to the law. Amini died a couple days after her police detention, suffering […]
Online Town Hall: Sunday, September 25 at 4pm pdt (7pm edt)
The Abortion Struggle Today — Our Right and Our Fight This is the video recording of the presentation by Jenny Brown at the Set 25 town hall. Ever since Roe v Wade legalized limited access to abortion in 1973, it has been under attack across the country. The nationwide assault on abortion rights has many […]
Senator Proposes Bill to Ban Abortions After 15 Weeks – We Say No!
On Tuesday, September 13, Senator Lindsey Graham proposed a national bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The senator appears to be reversing his previous position that states should determine abortion legality. This bill would override the abortion laws in states with less restrictive laws. While it’s unlikely the bill will go […]
U.S. Women’s Soccer Fight Culminates in Landmark Equal Pay Agreement
On Tuesday, September 6, the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team signed a landmark equal pay agreement guaranteeing identical pay with members of the men’s team. This is the result of a long fight that women’s soccer activists have carried out to receive gender equality in payment. Activists within the women’s structure have been fighting for […]
Justice For Brittney Griner! Justice For Us All!
Since March of this year, WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner has been incarcerated in Russia, and is now facing 10 years in prison. She – like many other WNBA stars – has played there professionally in her off-season for seven years because women athletes simply don’t make enough money playing in the U.S. While male […]
Louisiana State Officials Order Death by Flooding for Opposing Abortion Ban
After the Dobbs decision came down from the Supreme Court in June, Louisiana has implemented one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the nation. This ban has no exceptions even for rape or incest. The state recently even prevented a woman who was 10-weeks pregnant with a fetus with no skull (acrania) from aborting, […]
Abortion Providers’ Choice: Lose a Patient or Lose my License
Restrictive abortion laws are forcing doctors to choose between risking their patients’ lives and risking their medical licenses.
“Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now” — A Book for This Time
Save the Date! Jenny Brown, author of Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now will be speaking at our town hall on Sunday, September 25 at 4:00pm – 5:30 pm (pdt) (7:00pm – 8:30 pm (edt)). She will be discussing her book and the overall attacks on reproductive rights and a strategy for fighting back. Please […]
French Perspective: In the U.S., Supreme Court Fundamentalists vs. Women’s Rights
June 27, 2022, Editorial of the Workplace Newsletters of the Etincelle fraction of the New Anticapitalist Party (NPA), Translated from French. Last Friday, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the 1973 ruling that guaranteed abortion rights across the country. Calling into question women’s right to control their bodies, a right acquired after […]
Clarence Thomas Promises More Right-Wing Attacks Are Coming
In voting to overturn Roe vs. Wade, the case that for nearly fifty years guaranteed federal protection for the right to abortion, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas provided a glimpse into future right-wing attacks that are on his agenda. Thomas wrote that the basis upon which Roe was overturned is the same as that which […]
Documentary Review: “The Janes” on HBO Max Documentary is a Must-See!
“The Janes,” an HBO documentary about a 1960s abortion clinic, is a must-see.
Thousands Protest the Supreme Court Decision to Overturn Roe v. Wade: What’s Next?
With the Supreme Court’s radically conservative decision on Friday to repeal Roe v. Wade, demonstrations erupted all over the U.S. The Supreme Court’s decision poses immediate risks to tens of thousands of women and pregnant people across the country. Already in half the country, many will have no recourse but to carry a pregnancy to […]
Defending Our Rights Depends On Us
At a time when women around the world are winning the right to access legal abortion, on June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to turn the clock back to the 1970s. Five justices, lifetime permanent political appointees, who are not accountable to us, have decided that there is no federally guaranteed right for women […]
Roe Overturned — Where are We Now?
Now that Roe has been overturned, abortion is banned or restricted to the point of inaccessibility in more than 20 states, where trigger laws have been put in place. This means people will be forced to give birth against their will, even in cases of rape, incest, and when the life of the pregnant person […]
Pride Month – A Time to Celebrate AND Fight Back!
June is Pride Month, dedicated to the struggles of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer people. It is a time to celebrate LGBTQ+ people, and recognize their many important contributions throughout history. However, Florida’s governor Ron DeSantis recently signed into law what some are calling the Don’t Say Gay bill. The vague language of […]
Restricting Abortion Access is Deadly
As the Supreme Court prepares to reverse Roe v. Wade and end federal abortion rights in the United States, we explore the question: what impact will this have on people’s health? You’d think with developments in modern medicine that pregnancy would be getting safer rather than more dangerous – you’d be wrong. Since 1987, the […]
Is a New Movement for Reproductive Rights Taking Shape?
Roe is overturned, any movement that builds up in the streets can pick up where Roe fell short. We have to begin to organize our own fight to have control not just over our bodies, but also over the kind of world we want to live in.