How Latin American Women Are Winning the Battle for Abortion Rights

By DIANA CARBONI Today, 37 percent of Latin America and the Caribbean’s population of 652 million live in countries where women have won rights to legal abortion or are no longer imprisoned for terminating a pregnancy (including Cuba, Guyana, and Puerto Rico). Five years ago, it was less than 3 percent. None of this would have been possible without feminist activism, networks and demonstrations, and public conversations about the autonomy of women.

Debate in the Fourth International: The Leninist Strategy of Party Building and the Impending Ecological Catastrophe

Our historic conception of the Transitional Program and its underlying method is aimed at the construction of a deeply rooted, mass revolutionary socialist working class party with the central objective of leading the proletarian struggle for state power and the construction of a socialist society. The Bureau text is silent on this fundamental question.

Women’s Rage: My Body, My Choice

By ANN MONTAGUE and LISA LEONARD The leaked draft opinion by a majority of Supreme Court Justices supporting overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision has fueled the anger of women across the country. Furious women immediately surged the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court to denounce the court’s intention to overturn half a century of legal abortion rights. 

March 1-7 Events in the Bay Area: NO TO US/NATO WAR IN UKRAINE! 

NO TO US/NATO WAR IN UKRAINE!  PEACE NOW! No to NATO and NATO expansion!(a central cause of the current crisis) No war with Russia! No sanctions! Fund  human needs, education, healthcare, housing and the environment,  not war! Stop the wars against working people, the poor and oppressed in the US. and abroad! All Out for … Continue reading March 1-7 Events in the Bay Area: NO TO US/NATO WAR IN UKRAINE!  →

Toronto Anti-Convoy Protest Shows the Way Forward

By DANIEL TIRADE While the anti-mandate siege in Ottawa continued, Torontonians learned of a similar convoy set for the weekend of February 5, 2021. We anticipated thousands of people would converge in Toronto to spread a eugenicist message — that saving the lives of the most vulnerable from Covid-19 is not worth any concession of individual liberties. But frustrated and over-stressed healthcare workers decided to take a stand.

Julian Assange Can Now Seek Appeal Against US Extradition to Top UK Court

By MARJORIE COHN On January 24, 2022, the British High Court of Justice allowed WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to ask the U.K. Supreme Court to hear his appeal of the extradition order. In December 2021, the High Court had overturned U.K. District Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s January 2021 ruling denying the U.S. request for extradition.