President Trump Rolls Back Healthcare Discrimination Protections for Transgender People

On the fourth anniversary of the Pulse massacre and in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration announced it would roll back healthcare protections for transgender people. The new rule will allow healthcare and insurance providers to deny medical care and coverage to transgender people. 

Stonewall Was a Riot

Today is the first day of Pride Month, a celebration of the Stonewall Riot in 1969. Now uprisings are breaking out all over the country. Wealthy, white gay men today might be opposed to “violence,” but the history of the LGBTQ+ movement shows that riots of oppressed people are about liberation.

Rainbow Rising: A Call for Queer Anti-Capitalist Submissions During Pride

We invite you to submit articles to Left Voice during Pride Month and contribute to the conversation around the need for socialism and queer liberation. Email us at [email protected].

Socialist Revolution, Women’s Liberation, and the Withering Away of the Family

Some say that Marxism is only interested in economic problems and ignores oppression. But the Russian Revolution showed how Marxists tried to end women's oppression by socializing reproductive work. They believed relationships should be based exclusively on love, not social coercion.

Feminism and Coronavirus: What Next?

Feminism has already warned that capitalism brutally expands the precariousness of the work necessary for social reproduction, work that falls mainly on women, and the acute contradiction between life and profit under this system. The pandemic confirms these diagnoses. So what do we do next?

Whither Queer Liberation?

Fifty years after the Stonewall uprising, the LGBTQ+ movement faces lots of conservative pressures. What could a revolutionary alternative look like?

FEMA Funds Ultra Right, Anti-LGBTQ+ Group to Build Makeshift Hospital in Central Park

The coronavirus crisis is shining a light on the many failings of the American healthcare system. One of those failings is the institutionalized bigotry of the system.

Covid-19 and Domestic Violence

With stay-at-home orders in many states, one critical public health measure will be exacerbated: domestic violence, as victims are confined at home with their abusers and with fewer resources to ensure their safety.

Catalan Labor Union Calls Strike on International Women’s Day

The General Confederation of Labor (CGT) in Catalonia has called for a 24-hour strike on International Women’s Day, March 8.