Tag Archives: Reproductive rights

Özgecan Aslan: Sexual assault and murder in Turkey spark widespread outrage, demonstrations

Posted on February 20, 2015 by franklindmitryev

Preview of article on women’s oppression and freedom struggles worldwide for March-April issue. Comment now so that your thoughts can be taken into account in the finished article. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, Ahmet Suphi Altindöke, AKP, Ankara, Özgecan Aslan, Berlin, Cyprus, feminism, Frankfurt, Gaziantep, Germany, Hamburg, India, Istanbul, Justice and Development Party, Jyoti Singh Pandey, Mersin, patriarchy, Rape, rape culture, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual assault, students, Taksim Square, Taliban, Terry Moon, Turkey, Violence against women, women's liberation, youth, İzmir | Leave a comment

Court, fanatics besiege clinics

Posted on March 22, 2014 by franklindmitryev

In June the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if buffer zones around clinics that offer abortion are a violation of freedom of speech. Court watchers say they look ready to rule the zones illegal. That would be a tragedy. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged abortion access, Abortion clinic, Antonin Scalia, feminism, Freedom of speech, New York Times, Operation Save America, patriarchy, Reproductive rights, sexism, Supreme Court of the United States, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Women fight for freedom against growing retrogression

Posted on March 13, 2014 by franklindmitryev

While experiences in the squares of the Arab Spring, in Turkey’s Gezi Park, in the streets of Spain and Greece, and in the U.S. Occupy Movements have revealed moments of what new human relations between women and men could look like, those moments of hope and exhilaration have been followed by devastating reaction and retrogression. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Abortion, Afghan Women's Network, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, African Americans, Arab spring, Bashar al-Assad, birth control, Black liberation, Burma, Contraception, Dina van der Zalm, Egypt, feminism, food stamps, Gezi Park, Greece, Hamid Karzai, Heather Barr, Human Rights Watch, Iraq, ISIL, ISIS, Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, Jordan, Kachin, Latinas, Lebanon, Louisiana, Middle East revolutions, Missouri, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Myanmar, New York Times, Nouri al-Maliki, Nuba Mountains, Occupy Gezi, Occupy Movement, Occupy Wall Street, patriarchy, Planned Parenthood, poverty, racism, Rape, Raqqa, Reproductive rights, sexism, sexual harassment, Shan, Sima Samar, South Dakota, Spain, Sudan, Suraya Pakzad, Tahrir Squares, Taliban, Texas, Turkey, U.S. military occupation of Iraq, Unemployment, United States, Violence against women, Virginia, Wendy Davis, Women's League of Burma, women's liberation | Leave a comment

War against abortion is war against women (Readers’ Views)

Posted on March 8, 2014 by franklindmitryev

From the Readers’s Views in the January-February 2014 issue of News & Letters: War against abortion is war against women A pedestrian walking by our clinic summed up the absurdity of anti-abortionists: “Why would you take life advice from someone … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, anti-abortion, Antonin Scalia, clinic escorts, feminism, McAllen Texas, patriarchy, Reproductive rights, sexism, Supreme Court of the United States, Texas, women's liberation | Leave a comment

Readers’ Views, Nov.-Dec. 2013, Part 1

Posted on December 14, 2013 by franklindmitryev

Readers’ Views from Nov.-Dec. 2013 N&L: U.S. RACISM AND BLACK AND LATINO STRUGGLES; LABOR UNDER ATTACK; CTA vs. THE HOMELESS; DISABILITY AND HUMANITY; ABORTION IS A HUMAN NEED; EGYPT’S CONTRADICTIONS; DETROIT CRISIS; NUCLEAR PERIL; WHY A NEWSPAPER LIKE N&L? Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, African Americans, American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard, Arab spring, Barack Obama, Black liberation, capitalism, Chernobyl, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Transit Authority, criminal injustice system, CTA, Cubic Transportation Systems Inc., Detroit bankruptcy, Detroit Eviction Defense Center, disability rights, Dream Act, DTE Energy, Egypt, Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, homeless, immigrant workers, Iran, labor, Latinos, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County social services workers, Middle East revolutions, Minimum wage, Mona Eltahawy, Muslim Brotherhood, New York City Police Chief Ray Kelly, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Pelican Bay prison hunger strike, prison industrial complex, prisoners, racism, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reproductive Justice, Reproductive rights, SEIU Local 721, structural economic crisis of capitalism, Tahrir Square, Unemployment, Ventra | Leave a comment

The politics of degenerate capitalism

Posted on May 2, 2013 by franklindmitryev

The rulers are not about to sit back and let revolt freely develop. All sorts of reactionary ideas and attitudes have been ushered into the mainstream of politics and the media. Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, American Civilization on Trial: Black Masses as Vanguard, anti-immigrant, Arkansas, Audrie Pott, Barack Obama, Catholic Church, Chicago, Christian Right, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, criminal injustice system, Damian Turner, Detroit, Emancipation Proclamation, evictions, Fearless Leading by the Youth, feminism, FLY, immigration reform, Indiana, Iran, Iraq occupation, Kansas, labor unions, Latino, LGBTQ rights, marriage equality, Medicaid, medicare, Michigan, militarism, North Dakota, North Korea, patriarchy, prison industrial complex, Publix, racism, Rape, Reproductive rights, Republican Party, Saratoga California, school closings, sequester, sexism, Social Security, Solitary confinement, Steubenville Ohio, TRAP, United States, voter suppression, Voting Rights Act of 1965, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Wendy's, Wisconsin, women's liberation, workers | Leave a comment

From India to Egypt to U.S., women fighting for freedom

Posted on March 17, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the new March-April 2013 issue of News & Letters: Lead From India to Egypt to U.S., women fighting for freedom by Terry Moon Two recent events have shown the deep and seemingly intractable worldwide oppression of women and, at … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged 2011 Egyptian revolution, Abortion, Addis Ababa, All India Progressive Women's Association, Arab spring, Bangladesh, birth control, Chokri Belaid, City of Joy, Congo, Contraception, Delhi, Egypt, Ennahda Party, Ethiopia, feminism, Hosni Mubarak, I Am One, India, Indonesia, Kashmir, Kavita Krishnan, Military rape, Mogadishu, Native American women, One Billion Rising, Opantish, Operation Anti-Sexual Harassment/Assault, patriarchy, Rape, Reproductive rights, revolution, Roman Catholic Church, sexism, sexual harassment, Somalia, Syria, Tahrir Square, The Uprising of Women in the Arab World, Tunisia, VAWA, Violence Against Women Act, women's liberation movement | Leave a comment

Undoing Michigan election

Posted on February 6, 2013 by franklindmitryev

From the new January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters: Editorial Undoing Michigan election With lightning swiftness a super-majority of Michigan lame-duck Republicans passed a series of oppressive bills at the end of December. Defying voters’ expressed views, they passed … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, Educational Achievement Authority, elections, Elena Herrada, emergency manager, far right, feminism, labor, Michigan, patriarchy, Public Act 4, Reproductive rights, Republicans, Rick Snyder, Right-to-work law, schools, sexism, students, teachers, theocratic right, UAW, United Auto Workers, women's liberation | Leave a comment

January-February 2013 issue of News & Letters is now online

Posted on February 2, 2013 by franklindmitryev

News & Letters, Vol. 58, No. 1 January – February 2013 You may view this issue of News & Letters in pdf form here Lead Uprisings in Egypt and Syria confront counter-revolution Slightly over two years since the beginning of … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abolitionist movement, American Civilization on Trial, Andrew Johnson, anti-abortion, Arab spring, Black masses as vanguard, Crossroads of History, dialectics, education, Egypt, Emancipation Proclamation, emergency manager, feminism, Hannibal Hamlin, Hussein Nagi Felhi, India, labor, Lincoln, Michigan, Middle East revolutions, Mohamed Morsi, Mohammed Bouazizi, Muhallah al-Kubra, Muslim Brotherhood, Rape, Raya Dunayevskaya, Reproductive rights, right to work laws, students, Syria, Tahrir Square, teachers, Wendell Phillips, women's liberation movement, workers | Leave a comment

Abortion rights action

Posted on December 18, 2012 by franklindmitryev

From the November-December 2012 issue of News & Letters Abortion rights action Chicago—On Oct. 20 dozens of determined women and some men demonstrated against the war on women, this time spearheaded by the Catholic hierarchy in cahoots with crazy anti-abortion, … Continue reading →

Posted in Marxist-Humanism | Tagged Abortion, birth control, Chicago, Contraception, feminism, Grey Panthers, Reproductive Health, Reproductive rights, Roman Catholic Church, war on women, women's liberation | Leave a comment