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…
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 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. 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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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…
Women in Canada still earn 31 per cent less than men annually. In fact, Canada ranks fiftieth out of 149 countries when it comes to wage equality for similar work. This is according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender…
By Lisa Luinenburg When I became a mother four years ago, I began to feel my oppression as a woman in capitalist society more acutely. All of the endless demands on my time began to add up—the sleepless nights, the…
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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, re-launched the modern IWD…
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by Elizabeth Byce A few female bankers have broken the glass ceiling. They are now being paid millions of dollars a year. Is this a gain for women? Is it a triumph of feminism? To be sure, the rise of…
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, re-launched the modern IWD…
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