Women’s Liberation Follow

Under neo-liberalism women are only 'liberated' as long as it means equal rights of exploitation and being commodities for the market.

Beyond the tired and familiar "zero tolerance" rhetoric spouted by Blair’s ministers as a solution to deter any type of behaviour that is "less than ordinary", there are some important positive changes to prostitution management in the strategy announced recently.

‘Every child a wanted child, every mother a willing mother" was one of our slogans on the great demonstrations against attacks on the abortion law in the 1970s and 1980s. It is not out of date today. Women’s lives are at risk throughout pregnancy and childbirth. And while the risk in Britain is tiny, in most of the world — especially poorer countries — it is still very high.

It started with the Cosmopolitan interviews - all three party leaders expressed personal unease over the abortion issue, but Michael Howard went one step further by stating that the time limit on abortions should be cut from 24 to 20 weeks, and that the current law allows what is 'tantamount to abortion on demand'.

Angela Phillips played a key role in organising a 50,000-strong TUC demonstration against the Corrie Bill, the third attempt to restrict abortion rights, in 1979.

When Frederick Engels wrote about women’s liberation, he didn’t only speak of equality. He also spoke of a world in which sexual relations would not governed by economic necessity or stifling morality, but would be really free.

Marx’s collaborator Frederick Engels argued that women’s oppression was as old as class society. It arose from the structures of the privatised family which pushed women out of the economic centre of society.

Sally Campbell explains why women lead the fight against Blair and New Labour, while Tash Shifrin spoke to some leading activists.

As the media panic about a 'nation of fatties', Hazel Croft looks at the pressures on women to conform to an ideal shape.

Shocking new figures have put equal pay back on the agenda.

The anti-war and anti-capitalist movements have been compared with the upsurge of the 1960s. What is the impact of the radicalisation on women?

Sally Campbell investigates claims that 'time is the new money' for women workers.