The Testaments by Margaret Atwood McClelland & Stewart, 2019 By: Barry Weisleder Margaret Atwood's 2019 Man Booker Prize-winning sequel to “The Handmaid's Tale” offers a glimpse of a grim future, a post-Trump, totalitarian, arch-patriarchal society. It depicts a fragment of…
Category: Women
On the 109th Anniversary of International Women’s Day
For Feminism and Socialism! A women's conference of the Socialist International in Copenhagen in 1910 launched International Women's Day globally in 1911. Trotskyist parties, including the predecessor organization of Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste in the Canadian state,…
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Video of Education for Activists conference now available!
Video of each of the sessions at the Education for Activists conference, November 15-16, 2019 in Toronto is now available! Working class politics — The crisis of the labour movement, lessons of the federal election, and a strategy to win.…
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Efforts to make abortion illegal do not stop at the U.S. border
Efforts to make abortion illegal do not stop at the U.S. border. The threat to a woman's right to choose is gaining ground in Canada, at least partly as a result of the right wing offensive in Trump's America. The…
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The Marxist analysis of women’s oppression
First published in Socialist Action newspaper, August 14, 2014. By CHRISTINE MARIE Review of Lise Vogel, “Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Toward a Unitary Theory” (Leiden: Brill Academic Books, 2013; Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2013). In the late 1960s, more…
