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Transgender socialism

Echo Fortune — 2026-03-27T13:52:24Z

There remains a world to win for transgender people, but what kind of socialism is capable of winning it? Echo Fortune gives her answer.

- Sexual politics / LGBT, Sexual politics, Features

Weaponising Gender: How gender became the perfect scapegoat for far-right and authoritarian actors

Aminah Jasho, Esme Abbott, Julisa Tambunan — 2026-03-27T13:16:33Z

Anti-gender mobilisation has become a defining feature of far-right movements since around 2015; and is now a tactic widely adopted by authoritarian governments across the political spectrum. From overturning abortion rights in the United States (US) to rescinding protection against domestic violence in Türkiye, institutions that defend women's rights are being systematically dismantled. These patterns align with a global decline in democracy, with over 75% of the world's population now living under restricted freedom. The correlation is not coincidental. As democratic institutions weaken, attacks on gender-based rights accelerate the decline and provide a roadmap for it.

- Sexual politics / Women, Far Right, Sexual politics, Features

My Revolutionary Inspiration, Barbara Ehrenreich

Lynne Segal — 2022-09-18T08:12:30Z

“A new wave of feminist internationalism is now evident in the huge marches to defend women's rights to abortion in Poland, and in the recent Green Wave of feminist militancy (symbolized by women waving or wearing large green handkerchiefs) that has swept across Latin America, with huge mobilizations to end violence against women and secure women's reproductive rights. Turning history on its head, these activists sometimes say they hope to inspire women in the United States to defend their own reproductive rights.”

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Obituary, Women, Sexual politics

Kevin Floyd's Foundational Queer Marxism: A Tribute

Peter Drucker — 2022-04-21T09:34:16Z

Against the Current advisory editor Peter Drucker, the author of Warped: Gay Normality and Queer Anticapitalism, is one of a handful of scholars who have in recent years developed the field of queer Marxism. Another pioneer of queer Marxism, Kevin Floyd, died tragically in 2019. This year the Marxist Literary Group honored Kevin Floyd's legacy with a special issue of its journal Mediations, including this tribute by Peter Drucker.

- Sexual politics / Marxism, Obituary, LGBT, Sexual politics

Invisibilities, Visibilities, and Liberation

Rowan Fortune — 2022-04-01T10:19:17Z

“In this struggle, to give ground at all, to fail to defend the smallest group, is to encourage inhumanity to its final victory, what Marx insightfully called the common ruin of the contending classes. Solidarity is the only alternative.”

- IV567 - April 2022 / Britain, LGBT, Sexual politics

No return to ‘normal' LGBT politics!

Gary Kinsman — 2022-02-24T10:03:06Z

In the wake of the pandemic, a radical re-orientation of queer and trans organizing is in order

- IV565 - February 2022 / Canada, LGBT, Sexual politics

Marxisms and Transitions

Terry Conway — 2021-07-08T08:31:59Z

For a number of reasons I was thrilled when I heard about the impending publication of Transgender Marxism by Pluto Press.

- Reviews section / Marxism, LGBT, Reviews, Sexual politics

Marxism and the oppression of trans people

Arya Meroni — 2021-06-28T15:17:38Z

The following text comes from notes for an educational for Anticapitalistas that I have reworked. The aim was to look back at the “polemics” posed by the new transphobic currents in feminism, from a theoretical and strategic point of view and in the context of the debates on the “Trans law”. It is not, therefore, a text that goes into the issues explored in depth or that claims to be exhaustive, but rather an introduction to the theoretical and strategic problematization of trans oppression from a Marxist perspective.

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

Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism

Socialist Resistance — 2021-06-28T15:15:21Z

Our understanding of the term gender is that it is separate from the term sex, the latter refers to physiological features, the former to a socially constructed role. To quote Simone de Beauvoir: ‘one is not born but rather becomes a woman'. This has always been the general position of Marxist feminists – oppression is not a direct result of physiological features but the social role assigned in general to those who have those features.

- Sexual politics / Britain, Women, Sexual politics, Features

Bohrer's loving, fuming critique

Peter Drucker — 2020-04-06T17:02:32Z

“Ashley Bohrer's Marxism and Intersectionality is indispensable reading for socialists trying to understand how class, race and gender mesh. ” Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism by Ashley J. Bohrer, Bielefeld (Germany): Transcript, 2019, distributed by Columbia University Press, $45.00

- Reviews section / Women, Reviews, Sexual politics