LONDON — TV personality India Willoughby asked police in Northumbria to arrest author J.K. Rowling for alleged “transphobia,” claiming that her online remarks were a “hate crime.” At stake for working people is the defense of crucial free speech rights,…
To mark International Women’s Day, the Militant is running this excerpt from a speech by Thomas Sankara, leader of the popular democratic revolution in Burkina Faso, to a rally of several thousand women on March 8, 1987. It is from…
International Women’s Day is celebrated around the world March 8. On this occasion the Militant is printing excerpts from The Low Point of Labor Resistance Is Behind Us: The Socialist Workers Party Looks Forward by SWP leaders Jack Barnes, Mary-Alice…
Russian President Vladimir Putin is leading a drive to severely restrict women’s right to get an abortion in Russia, which in recent history has a relatively high abortion rate, an annual average of 46 per 1,000 women. At the same…
Moscow has been waging a genocidal war against Ukraine and its people for over 21 months. Russian President Vladimir Putin denies Ukraine has a right to exist, claiming it’s part of Russia. The Kremlin has kidnapped tens of thousands of…
More than 100 women are today working underground at the Pavlohradska coal mine in southeastern Ukraine. This is the first time that women have been hired to work underground since the counterrevolutionary regime of Joseph Stalin barred women from doing…
CINCINNATI — After a national campaign organized by the Democratic Party, drawing in tens of millions of dollars, an amendment to enshrine the right to abortion in Ohio’s state constitution passed Nov. 7. The campaign had nothing to do with…
In the 12 months following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision that ruled Roe v. Wade unconstitutional, there was an increase in the average number of legal abortions to 82,298 each month. This rise takes place while steady jobs with…
Two days after Shamony Gibson from the Brooklyn borough of New York City came home from the hospital with her baby boy in September 2019, she began experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath. Her partner, Omari Maynard, told the…
ARLINGTON, Va. — Some 250 women and men gathered for the National Organization for Women’s annual conference here June 30-July 2. The theme was “We Won’t Stop: Organizing Until Equity for All.” The NOW leadership promoted a renewed effort to…
