women's oppression

Two Women: ‘The Assistant’ and ‘Never Rarely Sometimes Always’

December 23, 2020 By Michael Berkowitz

Seventeen-year-old Autumn is pregnant. When she goes to a crisis pregnancy center, she is shown an anti-abortion video and steered toward having the baby. With no resources and desperate to keep her plight secret from her...

A statue in verse for Friedrich Engels’s partner Mary Burns

November 25, 2020 By Jenny Farrell

There can be little doubt that Mary Burns was instrumental in introducing Engels to the horrendous conditions of the Manchester proletariat. She knew intimately the conditions of families at work and in their typhus- and cholera-stricken...

Review: ‘The Sex Factor – How Women Made the West Rich’

July 26, 2019 By Kimball Cariou

Some readers will think Bateman’s views towards Marxist analyses are less than accurate, but she offers a valuable perspective rarely mentioned in bourgeois academia.