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Euro Parliament Votes for Abortion Rights

Posted on 9 May 2024 in Politics

Cable TV news network Euronews reports that the European Parliament has voted by a considerable margin to ensure the right to free and comprehensive abortion rights to be an inalienable right for women. The proposal was approved by 336 votes to 163 against, with support mainly coming from left-wing and centrist members. The clause will be part of the EU's Charter of Fundamental Rights. Hard-left French MEP Manon Aubry attacked what she called "reactionaries" on the right for voting against the measure. "No, the right to abortion is not a controversial issue.

Cass Report is Degraded, Corrupt and Misleads

Posted on 7 May 2024 in Politics

The left wing weekly newspaper Socialist Worker says that the Cass Report into services for transgender people "bolsters" transphobes and right wing culture war extremists, who are using a moral panic to distract from the woeful performance of a degraded and corrupt conservative

Collapsing the "Moribund" Family

Posted on 6 May 2024 in Politics

The Anarchist news website Libcom publishes an essay that argues that patriarchy is a pillar of capitalism and will fall with it. The writer says "Women, who were held in the highest esteem in pre-class communist societies, were placed in bondage in the patriarchal order establi

Right Wing Party Drops Candidates for Fascism

Posted on 5 May 2024 in Politics

Hope Not Hate, an organisation that monitors and researches far right extremism, says that the hard right party Reform UK has had to drop several shortlisted election candidates for the next General Election, because of their fascistic viewpoints. In one case, t

Butler Shows Feminism Supports Trans Rights

Posted on 3 May 2024 in Politics

Sometimes the popular and right wing press can present feminism and trans rights as battling it out against each other. But this is a distortion that plays into their divide and rule tactics of pitting different social groups against each other. The fact is that, as a sticker we saw in the St P

Apr

Talking Prison Abolition with Queer Women

Lighthouse is a queer-owned and woman led independent community bookshop in the Scottish capital Dùn Èideann / Edinburgh.

Apr

Analysis of How to Fight Right Wing Populism

Radical left website RS21 features an essay by Pete Cannell about the rise of populist right wing parties and their links to climate change denialism. He writes "

Apr

Gay Tory MP Steps Down After Bribe Issue

Gay Conservative MP Scott Benton has resigned as a Member of Parliament, a move which will trigger a by election and could see the Tories lose another seat, as they trail the main

Apr

Tories Still on for Drubbing Despite Papers

There is little appetite in the country for a Conservative change of leader, which would yield a new Prime Minister, according to a poll by market research company Opinium quoted i

Apr

Countercultural Meeting Place Needs Repairs

A countercultural and anti-authoritarian meeting space, that has hosted many meetings for the campaign group Lesbians and Gays Support the Migrants, is appealing for funds to help