Gender & Sexuality
38 Senators Ignore Mass Mobilizations, Vote to Maintain System of Unsafe and Illegal Abortions
With 38 votes against, 31 in favor and two abstentions, the Argentine Senate rejected the legalization of abortion.
Left Voice
August 9, 2018[VIDEO] 8A: Hundreds of Thousands Packed the Streets of Buenos Aires
Hundreds of thousands packed the streets of Buenos Aires while the Senate voted on the right to an abortion
Left Voice
August 9, 2018Abortion Rights in Argentina: A Grassroots Fight in the Streets
The vote in Argentina’s national congress tonight will decide the question of the legality of abortion in the country. Due to significant public pressure from mass mobilizations in the streets, the politicians may find their hands are forced and vote to make abortion legal. This movement provides an important model for the international left.
Katherine Demby
August 8, 2018[Photo Gallery] The Fight for Abortion in Argentina
Women took the streets again in front of the Congress to fight for their rights.
Enfoque Rojo
August 8, 2018[VIDEO] NYC: Solidarity with the Fight for Abortion in Argentina
Over a hundred people gathered in Washington Square Park on Monday in solidarity with Argentina's fight for abortion rights. Today, the Argentine Senate will vote, while millions take the streets both in Argentina and around the world.
Left Voice
August 8, 2018Trans Men Also Need Free and Legal Abortions
Abortion isn't just a women's rights issue. Trans men and non binary folks also get abortions. Argentine socialist Tomas Mascolo writes about his experience getting an abortion.
Tomás Máscolo
August 8, 2018Lessons from the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Argentina
What can we learn from the fight for the right to an abortion as socialist feminists?
Madeleine Freeman
August 8, 2018The World Shows Solidarity With Argentina’s Abortion Rights Movement
There are mobilizations all over the world planned in solidarity with Argentina's abortion rights movement.
Left Voice
August 7, 2018[VIDEO] Fighting for Abortion Rights in the Streets of Argentina
We will be skyping with two socialist feminists from Argentina about how they have engaged in the struggle. Nathalia González Seligra is a member of Congress for the Left and Workers Front and a part of the Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas (Party of Socialist Workers). Andrea D'Atri is the founder of Pan y Rosas (Bread and Roses) the largest socialist feminist organization in Argentina, as well as a member of the PTS.
Left Voice
August 1, 2018The Challenges of the Russian Revolution and Women’s Rights
This is the second of two articles in a series that explores the advances in the realm of women’s rights opened by the Russian Revolution, as well as the difficulties in implementing these advances due to the material conditions of post 1917 Russia.
Andrea D'Atri
July 23, 2018