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Long Read: The Wages for Housework Campaign Is As Relevant As Ever

by Sophie K Rosa

It may have started in the 1970s, but the 'wages for housework' campaign is just as relevant today. Sophie K Rosa speaks with some of its organisers about its lasting impact and why today's feminist movement should be taking notes.

Downstream: How Violence Shapes Our Sex Lives

Is ‘consent’ the only dividing line between good sex and bad sex? Ash Sarkar is joined by Rachel Thompson to discuss her new book Rough, and the politics of pornography, kink, and sex ambivalent feminism.

Ash Wednesday: What About the White Working Class?

Has the idpol-loving left abandoned the white working class? The answer is a bit more complicated than the Tories would have you think.

Novara FM: Notes From Below: No Politics Without Inquiry!

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by three editors from Notes From Below – Jessica Thorne, Callum Cant and Seth Wheeler – to discuss the history and theory of Workers' Inquiry and current strike action.

Conversations at the ‘White Table’ in the Age of Trump

by The Positioned Observer

At dinner tables across the United States educated white liberals are discussing and debating how Trump came to be their president. Race, however, is a topic that’s never on the table.

Long Read: Who Gets Sick From Yellow Fever? What Carceral Feminism Does Not See

by Kate Sim

Who absorbs the invisible, material costs of the so-called 'Asian fetish?' What does this tell us about borders, globalization and the limitations of carceral approaches to sexual violence?

From the Women’s March to the International Women’s Strike

by Cinzia Arruzza

Cinzia Arruzza, author of Dangerous Liaisons: the Marriages and Divorces of Marxism and Feminism, explains the potential of the Women's Marches against Trump to grow into a powerful mass movement linked to wider struggles against oppression and exploitation.

6 Reasons We Need an Intersectional Approach to Climate Change

by Maddy Winters

At the recent London Climate March, stewards tried to push the Global South bloc to the back of the protest, exemplifying the way NGOs routinely sanitise the environmental movement in spite of the people worst affected by climate change.

Access, Intersectionality, Autonomy: What the NUS’s Misuse of Language Means for the Left

by Tom Scrivener

NUS conference is around the corner, and student activists and bureaucrats of varying stripes will undoubtedly wage war against one another once again. In recent years some key concepts from the radical left have gained traction with the NUS mainstream, but what does that mean for the left?

#ReclaimIWD: 7 Reflections from Inside the University of London’s Feminist Occupation

by Helena Dunnett-Orridge

8 March is International Women’s Day, and to mark the occasion free education activists from across the country have spent the weekend in an occupation of Senate House at the University of London.

Novara FM: Trans feminisms: Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack

On this week's show James Butler is joined by Roz Kaveney & Ellis Suzanna Slack as they discuss trans- and sex worker-inclusive feminisms.

Radical Lives: Sylvia Pankhurst

by Daniel Whittall

Sylvia Pankhurst is commonly regarded among the first socialist feminists, but less widely known is her simultaneous commitment to fighting colonialism and fascism, and to amplifying the interconnectedness of these various systems of oppression.