Women’s Rights

When Andrew Cuomo announced his bid for mayor of New York this March, his allies framed it as a redemption story. Big donors resurfaced, old political friends rallied, and Cuomo himself spoke of unfinished business.  He quickly formed a new slogan, “Fight & Deliver,” to brand his reentry into New...

A violent pro-Israel mob descended on Brooklyn’s streets while far-right Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir was visiting. The NYPD stood by and did nothing. Three months later, nobody has been charged. BT’s Jackie Kindall speaks with two of the survivors who are taking legal action.

The field of psychoanalysis has long colluded with Zionism, justifying Israeli crimes while pathologizing Palestinian resistance.  Lara Sheehi, an assistant professor of clinical psychology and author of “Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine,” was targeted for being unapologetically anti-Zionist. She joins Rania Khalek on Dispatches to discuss Zionist repression,...

The U.S. and South Korean government have hidden the sex slave system for U.S. troops, called camp towns, that began after World War II as a continuation of the Japanese-run sex slave system in Korea, the so-called ‘comfort women.’ Now the story is finally getting more light—as  a way for...

Women leaders from all over the Global South came together in China in 1949 to strategize about building an anti-imperialist, anti-colonial women’s movement at The Revolutionary Feminist Conference. The conference worked to overcome the fact that imperialists and colonialists were sharing materials, ideas, and plans among themselves, while working to...

On August 2nd, Kansas will be the first state to vote on an abortion ballot measure since the Supreme Court overturned the federal right to abortion in the Dobbs decision. This measure would amend the Kansas Bill of Rights to state that there’s no state constitutional right to abortion. Kansas...

In the United States women’s rights are under assault with a looming Supreme Court decision that could ban abortion in all 50 states. The prospect of a significant roll-back of rights has already sparked a strong response. Karina Garcia, organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, with ten years...

The following is a lightly edited transcription from In the News, the weekly Tuesday show on The Socialist Program. Subscribe here. Nicole: People have been in the streets throughout the country protesting the draft opinion to overturn Roe v Wade. Just this weekend, from Friday to Monday, over 30 cities...

The following is a lightly edited transcription from In the News, the weekly Tuesday show on The Socialist Program. Subscribe here. Nicole: The leaked draft decision from the Supreme Court overturning Roe v Wade has sent tens of thousands of people into the streets. However, the Democratic Party’s response has...

Mississippi’s abortion ban will be heard at the Supreme Court on December 1, and the court heard arguments on the Texas abortion ban last week. What is the future of women’s reproductive rights in this country? What do Kavanaugh and Barrett’s skeptical questions of the Texas abortion ban mean about...