The Crimethinc collective have raised more than enough to launch ‘TO CHANGE EVERYTHING’.
‘To Change Everything’ is a book that shows the way to a future
without bosses, oppression, and poverty.
It’s being produced in 14 languages at the same time.
It’s a series of interactive websites being set to start on the same day.
It’s an amazing video version. Continue reading -To Change Everything- world campaign kickstarts
They talk about: the conservative laws on abortion and assisted reproduction that want to control the woman’s body;
the femicide ; the cuts in health care, social assistence and education;
the repression; the immigration laws and the health care apartheid and – last but not least – the laboral reform that increases the gender discrimination. Women in our society, being responsable quite entirely for care tasks, are now working harder and longer for balancing cuts and privatization of social services out .
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Dear old Emma Goldman, throughout her long and prolific career within the anarchist movement of the twentieth century, produced many political texts to which activists return much more frequently than to other anarchist thinkers. Usually these texts are criticized by leftist feminism for being just what they are: anarchist harangues from on the barricade itself. Here we take the thought of Emma Goldman not uncritically as libertarian gospel, but to make it live in your discussion today, and to rescue Emma’s special ability to put her finger right on the spot, in the wound of mainstream feminism of her day, while at the same time opposing the practices of her own fellow militants of the anarchist movement, whip in hand. Continue reading Whip in hand: Emma Goldman’s feminist critique of feminism
This group argue that a big taboo is seeing how our anxiety is caused by the system and not just ourselves, and how exposing this can empower us to fight back.
Reposted with the kind permission of the Institute for Precarious Consciousness: www.weareplanc.org
1: Each phase of capitalism has its own dominant reactive ‘affect’. 2
Each phase of capitalism has a particular affect which holds it together. This is not a static situation. The prevalence of a particular dominant affect 3 is sustainable only until strategies of resistance able to break down this particular affect and /or its social sources are formulated. Hence, capitalism constantly comes into crisis and recomposes around newly dominant affects.
Continue reading How imposed Precarity, Anxiety and Isolation keep us Passive
Thilde Knudsen is head of Marie Stopes International’s Europe office.
Spain is about to criminalise abortion; politicians in the UK repeatedly attempt to reduce the 24-week limit; and last week in Brussels, a Parliamentary hearing discussed a European Citizens’ initiative that, if successful, would block European Commission (EC) development funding for maternal health. Continue reading The march backwards: Defend Womens reproductive rights.
The fourth wave of feminism seems to be A Thing now and it’s all about the technology.
The campaign for women’s liberation never went away, but this year a new swell built up and broke through. Since the early summer, I’ve been talking to feminist activists and writers for a short book, All The Rebel Women, and as I tried to keep up with the protests, marches and talks, my diary became a mess of clashing dates. Continue reading Everyday Sexism Project gets 50,000 entries.. Join in now!
Below I reproduce an unattributed translation from the French anarchist publication, Le Monde Libertaire, of an interview with the Tunisian anarchist feminist group, Feminism Attack! I follow that with an earlier report about the Tunisian feminist activist, Amina Sboui, leaving the Femen group and declaring herself an anarchist. Femen is a radical feminist group founded in Ukraine which has captured some media attention through its topless protests where Femen activists paint various political slogans across their chests.
Continue reading Amina with Feminism Attack: Anarcha-Feminism in Tunisia
