Australia part of a global rise in gender based violence
As 2021 begins, there are mounting reports noting a rise of domestic violence in Australia. The same trend is unfolding across the world. In places as far from each other...
Poland: Mass Movement in Defence of Abortion Rights
Huge protests have erupted in Poland over further restrictions to abortion rights, which are already among the most restricted in the world. Since the writing of this article on October...
Have women always been oppressed?
Nine out of ten nurses are women. They also make up more than two thirds of fast food workers and supermarket workers. On top of this women still bear the...
Women and COVID-19: Inequalities worsen
The COVID-19 pandemic is having a particularly hard impact on working class women all over the world. It’s exacerbating all the inequalities that women already experience. Women make up the...
Socialist feminism: An idea for the 2020s
Women and men around the world will mark March 8 as International Women’s Day, with demonstrations, marches and celebrations. The run-up to this occasion presents an important opportunity to examine...
Endometriosis: Women failed by a sexist system
March is Endometriosis Awareness Month. Endometriosis is an invisible condition that affects an estimated one in ten women worldwide, and at least 700,000 people in Australia. But even these estimates...
New decade of explosions and struggles awaits
The opening days of 2020 saw news reports dominated by the horrific images and footage of bushfires in Australia and the potential for a new war against Iran. This new...
Prince Andrew’s car crash interview
“Going to Pizza Express in Woking is an unusual thing for me to do” sneered Prince Andrew as he struggled to contain his disdain for ordinary people. In an astonishing...
Sham family law inquiry launched
Despite concerns from women’s advocacy groups, Scott Morrison has given the green light to a sham parliamentary inquiry into the family law system. The CEO of Women’s Safety NSW said...
Abortion decriminalised in NSW
In September the New South Wales state parliament voted to overturn the century old ban on abortion. This important healthcare reform marks a step forward in the fight for equality...
500,000 join Swiss ‘women’s strike’
Over 500,000 women, workers and young people took to the streets all over Switzerland on June 14 as part of a nation-wide women’s strike. The sheer size of the demonstrations...
NSW: Renew the fight for abortion rights
In early June a 2000-strong rally marched through Sydney’s city centre demanding the government finally remove the ban on abortion rights. The youthful rally was called by high school student...
Spanish state: ‘Wolfpack’ rapists convicted by Supreme Court
In an important victory for the mass feminist movement, the Spanish Supreme Court has increased the convictions in the Pamplona ‘wolfpack’ case to 15 years imprisonment for the five guilty...
IWD: The case for socialist feminism
International Women’s Day was established by socialist women as a day of struggle against oppression and exploitation meted out by the capitalist system. A hundred years later, we have won...
Victim-blaming in rape trial provokes mass anger
“Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way...
Abortion rights won in Queensland
A bill to remove abortion from the criminal code in Queensland was passed in October. This is despite Labor risking the defeat of the bill with a roll of the...
Ramp up the fight for abortion rights
In May of this year women in Ireland won a resounding victory in a referendum to repeal the 8th amendment of the Irish constitution, decriminalising abortion. This victory helped inspire...
Gendered violence: What kind of fightback is required?
Politicians, the mainstream media and the justice system have shut their eyes to the growing crisis of gendered violence in Australia. A new report from the Australian Institute of Health...