Below is a news release from National Women’s Liberation calling for a women’s strike against “all work, both paid and unpaid,” during the presidential inauguration weekend in January. They are setting a target of 20,000 strike pledges before making the…
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Some Random Labor Day Missives
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“The Group-Made Man” [and Woman] In the late 19th century, when the ideology of “the self-made man” was sweeping the United States, propagated by the dime novels of Horatio Alger and the “rags-to-riches” biographies of the likes of Andrew Carnegie,…
Why Are “Nanny Intellectuals” Prostitution’s Greatest Defenders?
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by Carol Hanisch “There is something very odd about the prostitution debate,” declares Swedish journalist, writer, and activist Kajsa Ekis Ekman in a recent Feminist Current post. “While the absolute majority of sex buyers are male, an overwhelming majority of…
Short Takes • May 14: It’s What You’re PAID, Not What You EARN!
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by Carol Hanisch As long as jobs pay poverty wages, the people who work those jobs will be poor. As the argument grinds on about the minimum wage and • whether $12 is too much (as most Republicans and many…
“A Special Place in Hell”: The Political Record of Hillary Clinton
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by Carol Hanisch “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other!” – Madeline Albright, first female U.S. Secretary of State (1997-2001) appointed by President Bill Clinton, hectoring women to support Hillary Clinton for U.S.…
Housework, Reproduction and Women’s Liberation
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by Carol Hanisch PART II: Who Benefits from Housework? In a city of 500,000 people, containing, say 100,000 working and lower middle class homes, 100,000 women are planning how to get the windows washed, the curtains cleaned, the clothing washed…
Speaking Truth AGAINST Power
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In an excellent article “Journalism as Subversion” on Truthdig, Chris Hedges, himself a journalist for major newspapers for many years, contends that the best journalism comes from dissidents, not professional journalists. He asserts that global capitalism’s assault is not only…
Housework, Reproduction and Women’s Liberation
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Part 1: WAGES FOR HOUSEWORK? When the Women’s Liberation Movement got underway in the late 1960s, housework arguably came in second only to issues around sex as an area of discussion of what women wanted to change in our lives.…
Vaga De Totes: Women Strike in Spain/Catalonia
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Proclaiming “Women move the world. Stop now! All on strike!” women took over the streets in Barcelona on October 22 demanding an end to the “social, economic and legal policies that severely undermine our rights, dignity and freedom.” The day began…
A Practical Solution to an Urgent Need
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Reprinted from Monthly Review, Volume 65, Number 11 (April 2014) http://monthlyreview.org/2014/04/01/practical-solution-urgent-need By Gregg Shotwell Gregg Shotwell is a retired UAW member who frequently contributes poems to the Blue Collar Review, and is the author of Autoworkers Under the Gun (Haymarket Press,…