International
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Women and the Religious Right in the USA: Jayne Egerton
This article about women and the religious right in the USA first appeared in Issue 5 of The Radical Notion. It is shared here with permission. Introduction Women...
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Advice to US Women to Compromise on Abortion Rights Misses the Mark: Katherine M Acosta
Katherine M Acosta is a lifelong feminist, a sociologist, filmmaker and writer. Divided We Fall is her documentary about the 2011 Wisconsin Uprising, a weeks-long protest to save collective...
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Spanish feminists take on Podemos: “There are feminists in Podemos too”
Just as women in Izquierda Unida, a Spanish left wing political coalition, have published a statement against proposed gender self-ID legislation; women in Podemos, a Spanish left wing party...
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Reclaiming feminism – a statement by Izquierda Unida
Izquierda Unida (United Left) is a Spanish coalition bringing together various left wing parties including the Communist Party of Spain. The following open letter was published in March 2021.
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Condemn the violent threat made against Carmen Calvo – an open letter
WPUK has joined with 13 other organisations to call on all the major political party leaders in the UK to condemn the violent threat made against the Spanish Deputy...
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What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls
What Biden’s Executive Order 13988 means for women and girls: One woman’s take by Callie Burt Biden’s Executive Order 13988: neither surprising nor good for women and girls On...
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Lidia Falcón: “Women are being erased from the law and public policy”
The following is a translation of an exclusive interview for Dominican newspaper El Caribe with Spanish lawyer and feminist politician Lidia Falcón. She was interviewed by Raquel Rosario Sánchez....
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Democratic norms trump single issues: a reflection on the US election
Many women in the UK will have been watching the election coverage of the US in the past few days, the outcome of which has ramifications not only for...
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Against the erasure of women: interview with Spanish feminist and politician Angeles Álvarez
We are delighted to feature an interview with Spanish feminist and socialist politician Angeles Alvarez. Born in Zamora in 1961, she was a PSOE (the Partido Socialista Obrero Español,...
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Statement by the Spanish Socialist Party on Sex-Based Rights and “Theories Which Erase Women”
NOTE: This is a translation of a statement by the Spanish Socialist Party. The definitions used in the piece do not necessarily align with those used by this campaign...
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Gender recognition in Ireland: Jill Nesbitt
Jill Nesbitt is a former journalist who has worked freelance and on the staff of The Irish Times, as a researcher on The Consumer Show for RTE, Ireland’s national...
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Sex and transgender status in American employment law – the Bostock case: Elizabeth Hungerford
Elizabeth Hungerford is a licensed, though non practicing, attorney in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She identifies as a feminist, lives as a lesbian, is a longtime observer and sometime...
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There’s more than one way to ‘erase’ women – Women’s rights under attack in Victor Orban’s Hungary: Jayne Egerton
Jayne Egerton is a socialist feminist & radio producer. On 28th May Hungary’s Parliament signed a bill into law which ends legal recognition for transgender people. The votes of...
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Democracy, sex-based rights and a sex-based pandemic: Raquel Rosario Sanchez
Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She specialises in ending male violence against girls and women and is currently pursuing a PhD...
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Expelled by the left: the case of the Spanish Feminist Party
Raquel Rosario Sánchez is a writer, campaigner and researcher from the Dominican Republic. She specialises in ending male violence against girls and women and is currently pursuing a PhD...
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Solidarity with the Spanish Feminist Party/Mensaje de Solidaridad con el Partido Feminista de España
We are alarmed by the expulsion of the Spanish Feminist Party from the left-wing coalition block Izquierda Unida this week because of disagreements about plans to support self-ID. This...
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50 Years of Women’s Liberation in the UK: Pragna Patel
Pragna Patel is a founding member of Southall Black Sisters’ advocacy and campaigning centre and Women Against Fundamentalism (now non-operational). She worked as a coordinator and senior case worker...
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Sex-based discrimination: an interview with Dominican feminists Michelle Morales and Violeta Jimenez
This article is part of a series of interviews featuring international perspectives on the ramifications of the concept of ‘gender identity’ within public policy. We are grateful to all...
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Until all our sisters are free: Paula Boulton
Paula Boulton is a musician, playwright and granddaughter of one of the first women Labour councillors. This post was first published on Facebook. We are republishing it here with...
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“Gender identity policies are authoritarian and dangerous for women’s rights”: Victoria Women’s Guild and Speak Up for Women
This article is part of a series of interviews featuring international perspectives on the ramifications of the concept of ‘gender identity’ within public policy. We are grateful to all...
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