By SANDRA EZQUERRA — BARCELONA — The debate in political circles and in the media in recent decades around the question of abortion has been accompanied by a growing monopoly ownership of the defense of the right to life by…
Category: Women
Feminist Rebellion Today
Published November 24, 2013 | By Socialist Action U.S.A. By CHRISTINE MARIE The following presentation was given by Christine Marie, representing Socialist Action at a Nov. 10 forum in Philadelphia called Feminist Rebellion Today. The other panelists were Preeti Pathak, Co-Chair…
UNIFOR – will Action match the Rhetoric?
by Lindsay Hinshelwood, assembly line worker at Ford Oakville, candidate for Unifor President on August 31, 2013 As a 15 year member of the Canadian Auto Workers Union (CAW) I couldn’t buy the line that my union was merging with…
Demand the Truth about Experiments on Aboriginal children
by Carrie Lester In July, old news became new again. The commercial media published stories about medical and nutrition experiments conducted in Canada’s Indian Residential Schools during the 1940’s and 1950’s. Why call it ‘old’ news? Because an article on…
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Henry Morgentaler and the Fight for Reproductive Freedom in the Canadian State
The crusading pro-choice doctor, Henry Morgentaler, died in Toronto, May 29, 2013 at the age of 90. His death came three months after the 25th anniversary of the 1988 Supreme Court decision striking down Canada`s federal abortion law. That victory…
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SA statement on International Women’s Day 2013
On the 102nd Anniversary of IWD For Feminism and Socialism! A Socialist International women's conference 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…
‘Go Home, Baby Girl’
Audrey Huntley, the maker of 'Go Home, Baby Girl', an internationally screened feature documentary, speaks on her film on the global anniversary of International Women's Day.