Interview with a Turkish Socialist Feminist
Despite the repressive and authoritarian government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2018, tens of thousands of women courageously marched in Istanbul to oppose patriarchy and violence against women. Below, we reprint an ...
Free Leila Hosseinzadeh and Other Iranian Students Who Are on Trial for Demanding Democratic Rights
It was the leftist students at Tehran University who stood in solidarity with the nationwide protests and chanted “Reformist or principalist, this story has come to an end!”, a powerful slogan that challenged party-centric establishment politics and immediately became...
Iran: Ongoing Labor Strikes, Women’s Protests and Ideas for International Solidarity
“The Free Union of Iranian Workers considers itself part of the movement for liberation from gender discrimination and any type of inequality in the social life of human beings. Thus we condemn the attacks on justice-seeking and freedom-loving women and men in front...
Los Angeles Panel: New Directions for Socialist Feminist Resistance, An International Dialogue
Speakers: Arielle Concilio, Latina gender studies student and activist, member of Left Voice Julia Wallace, Black anti-racist activist, member of SEIU and Left Voice Ashleigh Campi, gender studies and political theory scholar and activist Frieda Afary, producer...
Statement from a group of international socialist feminists in solidarity with Iranian women
We the signatories of this statement, refuse to separate our opposition to U.S. imperialism and any imperialist war drive on Iran, from our support for the progressive and revolutionary social justice struggles of Iranian women, workers and oppressed minorities...
The Rise, Decline and Return of Marxist Feminism
In this introduction to the new Persian translation of Heather Brown’s Marx on Gender and the Family: A Critical Study (Brill Press, 2012 and Haymarket Press, 2013), the translators situate Brown’s work in the context of the various tendencies within Marxist...
Support Iranian Women’s Acts of Protest Against the Compulsory Hijab: Drawing Lessons from 1979 and Today
These are incredibly courageous acts in a country in which the hijab is compulsory, and where women who do not wear their headscarves properly can be arrested, assaulted, face fines, lashes and imprisonment. . . These acts of protest are part of a broader wave of...
Women’s Resistance in Syria
Women in Syria face numerous challenges yet continue to struggle against fascism, imperialism and patriarchy. Yet with the partial exception of Syrian-Kurdish women in the north, they are absent from mainstream narratives on Syria, relegated invisible by the focus on...
Why Did Foucault Disregard Iranian Feminists in His Support for Khomeini?
The case of a renowned anti-authoritarian Western philosopher legitimizing the coming-to-power of a brutal theocratic ruling class in Iran raises a number of pressing questions. How could this have come to pass? Review of Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender...