Socialists in the Australian women's liberation movement
By Margaret AllanTo understand the development of feminism in Australia, it is useful to briefly recap the political situation that gave rise not only to the women's liberation movement, but to the...
View ArticleThe future of socialism and LGBTI rights in Cuba -- Interview with Mariela...
January 1, 2009 -- In Havana, Mariela Castro Espín speaks to Anastasia Haydulina of Russia Today Television. Mariela Castro is director of CENESEX –- the National Center for Sexual Education -- and a...
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Nepal's Blue Diamond Society: Hopes high for LGBTI rights
A Blue Diamond Society pride march in Kathmandu.March 17, 2009 -- Kathmandu -- Lal Salam's Ben Peterson interviewed Subash Pokharel, coordinator of Nepal's Blue Diamond Society. The Blue Diamond...
View ArticleSocialist feminist revival spearheaded by Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions
By Reihana MohideenMay 4, 2009 -- There is a revival of socialist feminism in Latin America, spearheaded by the Venezuelan and Cuban revolutions.I have just returned from a workshop on gender-based...
View ArticleInternational Day against Homophobia celebrated in Cuba -- three reports from...
Havana, 16 May, 2009 -- Prensa Latina -- International Day against Homophobia was observed here today, with the participation of a diverse, largely youthful public.In the early hours of the morning,...
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`The only fight we lose is the one we abandon’: Mexico’s first openly lesbian...
Patria Jiménez. Photo by Rachel Evans.By Rachel EvansMay 21, 2009 -- Coyacan, Mexico -- I interviewed Patria Jiménez in Coyacan’s normally bustling markets. The onset of the swine flu crisis had...
View Article`Amanzi Ngawethu' (water is ours); Health and environmental victories for...
On September 2 and 3, 2009, the Constitutional Court of South Africa will hear the final appeal in a case brought by five Soweto residents challenging Johannesburg's discriminatory prepaid water meter...
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HIV/AIDS treatment in Cuba: a rights-based analysis; Lessons and challenges
One of Cuba's many neighbourhood health clinics, centrepieces of Cuba's health system.By Tim Anderson Cuba has achieved the lowest rate of HIV infection and the highest level of AIDS treatment in the...
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The persecution of Caster Semenya -- sport and intersex people's rights
Caster Semenya.By Farida IqbalSeptember 20, 2009 -- Eighteen-year-old South African track athlete Caster Semenya has done nothing wrong. Yet she has been accused of deceiving the world about her sex....
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Capitalism, sexism and queerphobia’s social basis
Melbourne protest for same-sex marriage rights, August 9, 2009. Photo by Benjamin Solah. By Jess MooreThere are social expectations on everyone, men and women, to act in particular ways based on our...
View ArticleDistorted account of Morales speech distracts from fundamental issue of...
MEDIA ADVISORYApril 23, 2010 -- CMPCC -- A few national and international media outlets, instead of carrying out analysis and reports on the fundamental challenge of climate change, decided to distract...
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Love and revolution
By Nick Southall[The following speech was presented to the socialist youth group Resistance national conference dinner, held in Thirroul, Australia, on April 24, 2010.]Tonight I will be looking at love...
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Australia: Interview with new Greens MP Adam Bandt: 'I'll give a voice to the...
Greens MP Adam Bandt.Adam Bandt interviewed by Jody BetzienSeptember 2, 2010 -- Green Left Weekly -- Adam Bandt, the Australian Greens' MP elect for the seat of Melbourne (long considered a “safe...
View ArticleThird World health: Video -- Universal access by 20-when? Global leaders...
By the Treatment Action Campaign (South Africa)September 28, 2010 -- The communities delegation on the Board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Asia Pacific Network of...
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Sexual self-determination in socialist Cuba: An interview with CENESEX...
CENESEX director Mariela Castro Espín (centre). March 23, 2011 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal-- In Cuba, there is a LGBTT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transvestite, transsexual]...
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Rainbow Cuba: the sexual revolution within the revolution
March to celebrate LGBTI rights in Havana, May 2009.By Rachel EvansDecember 23, 2011 (updated January 28, 2012) – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- When I was 16, I went to a Cuba...
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Cuba: Interview with Mariela Castro, director of the National Centre for Sex...
By Bernard Duraud for the French newspaper L’Humanité, published December 9. Published in Spanish on the Cubadebate website, December 14. Translation by Walter Lippmann for CubaNews, edited by Marce...
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Washington threatens reprisals against Nicaragua’s voters
Nicaraguans celebrate the re-election of Daniel Ortega as president. John Riddell interviews Felipe Stuart CournoyerFebruary 2, 2012 -- Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal, also available...
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LGBTI activists respond to John Pilger: 'Equal marriage rights and Bradley...
Bradley Manning supporters at Occupy London, last year. Photo: Queerfriendsofbradley.wordpress.com.By Rachel Evans& Karl HandMay 23, 2012 -- Green Left Weekly -- More than 1000 Sydney-siders hit...
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United States: An ascending trajectory? Ten of the most important social...
Striking Chicago teachers rally, October 2012. By Dan La Botz December 31, 2012 -- New Politics -- The most important social conflict in the United States in 2012—the Chicago Teachers Union...
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