- Confronting Femicide in Brazil
- Sri Lanka’s Left Feminism
- UK’s Largest Union Moves Left
- Feminism in China
- Women’s Russia
- South Africa: The G20 Shutdown
- Mexico: Unions Join with Sheinbaum
- Peace for Sudan Platform
- People’s Health Movement on Gender Justice
- A Present: Grace Blakeley on the World Economy and Stuff
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Confronting Femicide in Brazil
Karin Schmalz / Fair Observer (Mountain View CA)
On December 7, thousands of Brazilians marched to protest femicide and violence against women. Far-right populism, Bolsonarism, neo-Pentecostal movements and online hate speech, which can receive explicit political support, perpetuate the struggles women and minorities face.
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Sri Lanka’s Left Feminism
Chulani Kodikara and Amalini de Sayrah / Polity (Colombo)
In Sri Lanka, a left feminist space of activism and mobilisation took shape from the Aragalaya/Porattam/Struggle of 2022 to electoral politics. It is too soon to parse the meaning of these developments for left feminist struggles—not only in relation to women, labour, and the economy, but also in relation to broader struggles.
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UK’s Largest Union Moves Left
John Tranter and Lou Woods / Tribune (London)
Andrea Egan’s victory in Unison’s leadership election is a win for millions of workers whose lives have played second fiddle to Labour’s right-wing careerists for too long — and could lead to a revival of British trade unionism.
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Feminism in China
Ralf Ruckus and Yige Dong / Spectre (New York)
For the past fifteen years, there has been a refreshing upsurge of Chinese feminism which has attracted global allies. It is mainly driven by relatively young, well educated and tech savvy Chinese women with some degree of English speaking skills. They have already caused profound changes in popular culture.
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Women’s Russia
Pushkin House / The Moscow Times
Julia Ioffe’s debut book, “Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, From Revolution to Autocracy,” tells the story of Russia through its women: from Julia’s physician great-grandmothers to feminist revolutionaries, from the single mothers who rebuilt the postwar U.S.S.R. to the members of Pussy Riot.
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South Africa: The G20 Shutdown
UN Women
As South Africa enters the 16 Days of Activism, the 21 November protests have set a powerful precedent, demonstrating that a new generation refuses to accept violence against women as inevitable, demanding that extraordinary measures match the extraordinary scale of the crisis.
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Mexico: Unions Join with Sheinbaum
Dulce Olvera / Mexico Solidarity Media (Mexico City)
Union leaders from the National Union of Education Workers, Mexican Petroleum Workers Union, the Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants, and the Railway Workers Union have switched allegiance from the PRI to the government project of the MORENA party and President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.
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Peace for Sudan Platform
Sonia D’Addario / Organization for World Peace (Toronto)
For two years, Sudan has been facing brutal conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). The Peace for Sudan Platform, uniting 49 women-led organizations, has demanded 50 percent representation in all governance and humanitarian efforts. The international community continues to exclude those trying to build peace.
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People’s Health Movement on Gender Justice
Claudio Schuftan / MEER (Budva, Montenegro)
Discrimination against women and girls is not only a flagrant violation of human rights and a negation of democracy, but it is also crippling in terms of economics. This is doubly important because sustained gender discrimination shackles any economy. In other words, upholding women’s rights helps an economy to thrive.
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A Present: Grace Blakeley on the World Economy and Stuff
Grace Blakeley is one of the fiercest anti-capitalist advocates of her generation. She’s an English economist, political commentator, and journalist. Join Blakeley and the Australia Institute’s co-CEO Richard Denniss in this video conversation about the need for a transformative movement to address inequalities within capitalism.
