Oppression

Oppression

• Cardiff rallies in solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikers

  

  The Kurdish community and anti-war activists in Wales have mobilised to amplify the voices of Kurdish hunger strikers, reports Kevin Potter

• Bloody Friday in Gaza: a great return massacre

  

  An unarmed, civilian protest from a people who have been oppressed for decades, results in bloodshed and massacre.

• As a trans woman, this is the unity I want to see

  

  In the trans debate we need less heat and more light, argues Kristina Jayne Harrison

• Marxism and Women's Liberation

  

  Buy online: A cutting edge guide to the way class and women's oppression intersect, and how emancipation must be linked to system change

• Morroco’s Makhzen: repression and resistance

  

  Fallout from the Arab Spring continues to permeate North African struggles, writes Richard Greeman

• Escaping Bleak House: sex, class and power in neoliberal Britain

  

  In this major new analysis, Lindsey German looks at resistance to neoliberalism, oppression's relationship to class, and how new forms of organising and the united front are central to a socialist transformation of Britain

• Burkini ban: the Islamophobia that lies beneath the beach secularism

  

  Is France's left doing enough to challenge the new wave of state Islamophobia, asks John Mullen 

• Burkini ban: taking the anger back to the French state

  

  Friday night’s central London emergency protest shows how Islamophobia must be countered, reports Katherine Connelly 

• The Orlando massacre was a homophobic act

  

  We cannot let the massacre in Orlando be used to stoke up homophobia and Islamophobia, argues Lindsey German

• Marxism and Oppression, by Tony Cliff - key texts

  

  This week the 'key text' in our series is an article written by Tony Cliff on Marxism and oppression, introduced by Vladimir Unkovski-Korica

• Exquisite and hard hitting: 'Working from Home' by Julie McCalden

  

  Sue Tate reviews Working from Home by Julie McCalden at The Museum of Bath at Work

• Marxism and Feminism

  

  Marxism and Feminism explores the connections between capitalism and women’s oppression through a range of serious and perceptive arguments, finds Lindsey German

• Reclaiming the spirit of Pride

  

  Nick O'Brien argues that the success of the Pride movie gives us a unique opportunity to reclaim the spirit of Pride this summer

• Migrants welcome here

  

  With the focus of hatred aimed at migrants the elite culprits of society's problems hide behind racism

• The fire last time: when ghetto riots rocked America

  

  Alastair Stephens looks at how riots changed American history and represented a historic challenge to the ruling order

• This is not about offence!

  

  Offensive jokes are a significant part of the infrastructure of prejudice argues Jeremy Messenger

• Work, Sex and Power

  

  The entire human history of exploitation and oppression is vividly summarised in Willie Thompson’s Work, Sex, Power, finds Mike Quille

• Black and dangerous? Listening to patients’ experiences of mental health services in London

  

  Why are black people with mental health problems still more likely than whites to be heavily medicated, restrained and detained against their will?

• Marxism and the Oppression of Women: Towards a Unitary Theory

  

  Lindsey German welcomes a new edition of a classic of Marxist Women’s Liberation theory, which opens up rich debates over the nature and origins of women’s oppression

• The SNP’s gay marriage crisis

  Adam Frew analyses why the SNP have got themselves into a mess over same-sex marriage.