Gender & Sexuality
Trans Day of Visibility 2024: Organize With the Working Class Against The Far-Right
Trans Day of Visibility this year comes in a context of an insurgent far-right. To defeat this right we will need to rely on our own power and join with the working class.
Sybil Davis
March 31, 2024Berlin Police Attack an Anti-Imperialist Feminist Demonstration on March 8
On International Women's Day, there were numerous demonstrations in Berlin, including: a union demonstration, an anti-imperialist demonstration, and a supposedly "leftist" demonstration in solidarity with Israel. As you would expect, police only attacked one of the three.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 14, 2024The Working Class Must Fight for Trans Rights
As new anti-trans bills are introduced in the United States, it is imperative to take up the fight for trans rights using working-class strategy and methods.
K.S. Mehta
March 11, 2024Rise in Forced Pregnancies Shows the Need for an Independent Movement for Abortion Rights
Post-Dobbs, research shows that many people in states where abortions are banned have been unable to get them. We need a movement to fight for free, safe, legal abortion on demand.
Molly Rosenzweig
December 19, 2023Women’s Liberation in Revolutionary Russia
The historian Wendy Z. Goldman gave this talk in Madrid and Barcelona on September 12 and 15, presenting her book Women, the State, and Revolution.
Wendy Z. Goldman
October 1, 2023Berlin Has a New Pride Demonstration That Cops Hate
Pride should be a protest, not a party. The Internationalist Queer Pride in Berlin takes up the tradition of the Stonewall Riots. Cops hate it — and that's a good thing
Nathaniel Flakin
July 30, 2023Trans Liberation and Socialist Revolution — A Debate with the IMT
Trotskyists should aim to be in the front lines of all struggles against oppression. This is a debate with Alan Woods's International Marxist Tendency (IMT) on how socialists should relate to the movement for queer and trans liberation.
Sasha Frost
July 29, 2023The Communist Women’s International, in English for the First Time
An Interview with historians Daria Dyakovona and Mike Taber about their new book with documents from the Communist Women’s International
Josefina L. Martínez
July 11, 2023The First Pride Was a Riot, This Pride Is a Strike: Starbucks Workers Shut Down Over 150 Stores
This June, Starbucks implemented a new policy which prevented employees from decorating their stores for Pride. Instead of accepting this hypocrisy from the supposedly queer-friendly corporation, workers at over 150 unionized locations shut things down.
R.F. Landers
July 1, 2023The Birth of the Homosexual Movement and Socialism in Germany
In this article, we look back at the birth of the homosexual movement in Germany, its ties to socialism, and the lessons of this alliance — in its victories and defeats.
Camille Lupo
June 30, 2023