Dispatches From the Culture Wars – November 19, 2024
Portside
Making sense of the new hell
Making sense of the new hell
Making sense of the new hell
Global Left Midweek – August 21, 2024
Portside
Multipolarity and the global demand for democracy
Global Left Midweek – June 26, 2024
Portside
As the world churns... and burns
film
There’s Still Tomorrow Shows Women’s Fight for Freedom
Jacobin
Paola Cortellesi’s film There’s Still Tomorrow offers a striking portrayal of working-class women fighting gendered violence in late 1940s Italy.
Global Left Midweek - Hard Takes on Hot Spots
Portside
A time for serious analysis, examination and history making
books
"The Right to Sex" Thinks Beyond the Parameters of Consent
New York Times
An essay collection centering on issues facing feminism today, the author calls on the movement to be “relentlessly truth-telling, not least about itself,” focusing on consent, intersectionality, misogyny, gendered violence, and other topics.
To Abolish Prisons and Militarism, We Need Anti-Imperialist Abolition Feminism
Truthout
“In this society, safety and security will not be premised on violence or the threat of violence; it will be based on a collective commitment to guaranteeing the survival and care of all peoples.”
labor
Building Alliances to End Gender-Based Violence at Work
Solidarity Center AFL-CIO
There is a specific set of behaviors that constitute gender-based violence at work that includes sexual violence, verbal abuse, threats of violence and bullying. A meeting in Brazil sponsored by the International Trade Union Confederation and the Solidarity Center discussed a campaign to shape a worker-driven International Labor Organization standard ending gender-based violence at work, based about successful initiatives by local worker organizations.
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