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The COVID-19 Crisis and the End of the “Low-skilled” Worker

Mark Bergfeld, Sara R. Farris — 2020-05-13T08:05:33Z

“One day our society will come to respect the sanitation worker if it is to survive, for the person who picks up our garbage, in the final analysis, is as significant as the physician, for if he doesn't do his job, diseases are rampant. All labor has dignity.” —Martin Luther King

- IV544 - May 2020 / Europe, Women, Covid-19 Pandemic

What is ‘femonationalism'?

Niki Seth-Smith, Sara R. Farris — 2019-05-16T13:15:44Z

Sara Farris recently published a provocative book entitled In the name of women's rights: the rise of femonationalism. In it, she examines how right-wing nationalists, neoliberals, and some feminists and women's equality agencies, all invoke women's rights to stigmatise Muslim men and advance their own political objectives. She argues that there is an important political-economic dimension to this seemingly paradoxical intersection.

- Feminism / Women, Far Right, Anti-racism and Islamophobia

Education strikes are women's strikes

Sara R. Farris — 2018-03-08T06:40:54Z

"The struggle for gender justice has always been and remains today crucial for the struggle for labour and social justice in general" - Sara Farris

- IV518 - March 2018

#MeToo shows sexism is not men of colour's prerogative

Sara R. Farris — 2018-02-18T10:34:53Z

In early January 2016, news of mass sexual assaults on the New Year's Eve in the German city of Cologne was dominating headlines in Western media. Reports of theft and sexual assaults were multiplying by the day and many were describing the perpetrators as "refugees" or Arab men.

- IV517 - February 2018 / Germany, Women, Racism and Islamophobia

The Intersectional Conundrum and the Nation-State

Sara R. Farris — 2015-06-10T07:22:07Z

It is not an easy task to reconstruct succinctly the main problematics that have traversed Marxist feminism in the last 40 years, without risking simplifications or serious omissions, or without producing a mere summary that avoids critically engaging with the subjects that it raises. And yet, I believe Arruzza's text “Remarks on Gender” accomplishes the task very well: her reconstruction of the key theses on the relationship between patriarchy and capitalism proposed by different currents within socialist and Marxist feminism from the 1970s onwards is not only lucid and informative, but also extremely clear and accessible. Furthermore, her partisan critique of the different positions on the table, alongside an indication of the most promising questions for debate, give us – as feminists who locate ourselves in the Marxist tradition(s) – a great opportunity to begin and/or deepen a much needed discussion and exchange. A new generation of Marxist feminists has emerged in the last years; it begins to question, re-articulate, expand and criticise the theorizations and disputes it has inherited from previous generations.

- Sexual politics / Marxism, Women, Sexual politics, Features

120 attend Gramsci conference

Bertil Videt, Sara R. Farris — 2007-12-10T22:41:04Z

Saturday's Gramsci conference in Amsterdam turned out to be a big success, both in terms of participation and discussions.

- News from around the world / Marxism