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6 October 2021
Sarah Everard trial reveals police abuse of power
While the Tories talk about how murders like Sarah's should never happen again, their actions speak otherwise.
23 June 2021
Tory review won't deliver justice for rape victims
'Rape has been decriminalised'. This was a 2019 assessment of a situation where just 1.6% of rapes result in someone being charged. Each year around 128,000 people are victims of rape but only just over
26 February 2020
A jury in New York City found Harvey Weinstein guilty of rape and sexual assault on 24 February. More trials are ahead for the multimillionaire film producer.
20 November 2019
Do you have something to say? Letters to the Socialist's editors. Austerity kills, defend the CWU, no rape justice, disabled poor
16 January 2019
Mexico: police silence on horrific attack on CWI member
On 20 December 2018, one of our members was raped, robbed and kidnapped for more than an hour
21 November 2018
Solidarity with Irish rape trial protests
Megaphones and placards declaring "end victim-blaming" and "fight sexism - no to all oppression, no to austerity" were adorned with lacy thongs.
21 November 2018
Global opposition to victim blaming in rape trial
Global publicity followed after Solidarity TD and Socialist Party member Ruth Coppinger questioned Leo Varadkar in the Irish parliament
17 October 2018
Libres y Combativas: striking for women's rights in the Spanish state
On 8 March 2018 - International Women's Day - an unprecedented strike against sexism and women's oppression took place across the Spanish state. Libres y Combativas played a central role. Now, the campaign is building for a new student strike on 14 November. The Socialist spoke to Ana Garcia, an activist in Libres y Combativas
30 May 2018
Historic victory won by grassroots movement
On 25 May, Irish citizens voted decisively to repeal the 8th Amendment, a resounding rejection of the abortion ban and misogynistic ideas about women and our bodies. The Yes vote won a landslide 66% and in all but one county.
2 May 2018
Spain: 'We don't want to be brave, we want to be free!'
Protests rocked Spain on 26 April and for a further two days following the sentencing of 'La Manada' - five men accused of raping an 18-year-old woman during the Pamplona bull-running festival in 2016.
11 April 2018
Moving look at school students' many perspectives on sexism
Fiction: The Nowhere Girls: 'The Nowhere Girls' is written from the perspective of a variety of young women school students at Prescott High School in the US, although it mainly chronicles the three founding members of the Nowhere Girls, Rosina, Erin and Grace
11 April 2018
Ireland: March against misogyny and injustice
Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland) members were to the fore in organising rallies and marches throughout the country, North and South, against rape culture and misogyny
25 October 2017
1967 Abortion Act reflected social changes
Fight for the right to choose when and whether to have children: Fifty years ago the 1967 Abortion Act was signed into law - where are women's rights today?
6 July 2017
Lessons from the Russian revolution for LGBT+ struggle today
When the Soviet Criminal Code was established in 1922, male homosexuality was not included as a criminal act
31 May 2017
Women and austerity - scrap the 'rape clause'
In Yorkshire, Socialist Party members have been organising with others under the banner of 'Women's Lives Matter'
19 April 2017
Benefits workers oppose 'rape clause' and two-child limit
The prospect of explaining this inhumane process to women who have already experienced horrific trauma is unacceptable
12 April 2017
Scrap the Tory 'rape clause' and all benefit attacks
Changes to child tax credits and the 'Universal Credit' benefit system will mean that people making a new claim from 6 April will have the number of children they can claim for capped at two. One exception to this is if the third child was born as a result of what the government calls "non-consensual conception."
1 March 2017
Fighting for liberation and socialism: Women are on the move - against Donald Trump in the US, and attacks on reproductive rights in Ireland and Poland
30 November 2016
Reclaim the Night solidarity march
Fifty determined women and men marched through Leicester on 24 November as part of international action in support of the 'Reclaim the Night' campaign.
23 November 2016
Ireland: repeal the 8th Amendment - fight for abortion rights
The Irish government has refused to give a second reading to a bill for a repeal referendum on restrictions to women's abortion rights. There has been a clear development of a pro-choice sentiment within society. This shows the need to develop the struggle outside parliament.
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