Alexandra Kollontai on “International Women’s Day”
Mezhdunarodnyi den’ rabotnitz, Moscow 1920 — Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international solidarity, and a day for reviewing the strength and organisation of proletarian women. But...
View ArticleHussain From the Front Stall
Pallavi Paul The last late night show. A forgotten, mossy single screen theatre. The burgers are too oily here and the butter stained pop corn never warm. A balding carpet which smells of people, wood,...
View ArticleRapists roam free while victims and activists are jailed
ML Update, CPI-ML (Liberation) Peasants, agricultural workers and women of Mansa district, Punjab observed New Year’s day this year with a protest gathering at the police headquarters in Mansa. Braving...
View ArticleRape Culture and Capitalism: What is living and what is dead
Saswat Pattanayak I understand many of us, Indians, are ashamed these days. And it is true that protests and placards do not educate the rapists. And that the students came out on the streets only...
View ArticleCentre for Struggling Women: Appeal and Demand Charter on growing sexual...
The recent brutal gang-rape of a 23-year old woman in Delhi has left the entire nation shocked and outraged. The fact that the woman was picked up along with a male companion from a crowded bus stand...
View ArticleDelhi Gang Rape and the Feminism of Proletarian Militancy
Pothik Ghosh Demands for harsh and summary punishment for rapists, or for that matter, stringent laws to deal with rape – fuelled as they are by moral outrage – do little else than reinforce the...
View ArticleFor Amendments to Laws in Order to Create Safe Workplaces
As one month passed since the young physiotherapist was brutally raped in Delhi while traveling in a private chartered bus, working women who are frequently at risk on Delhi’s roads as well as in their...
View ArticleNurses celebrate International Women’s Day
Today (9 March), large numbers of nurses from Delhi & NCR hospitals gathered under the banner of Nurses Welfare Association and Centre for Struggling Women (CSW) to celebrate International Women’s...
View ArticleClass Societies and Sexual Violence: Towards a Marxist Understanding of Rape
Maya John The movement which emerged post the 16 December 2012 gang-rape case in Delhi was a media sensation.[1] The circumstances leading to the victim’s rape (i.e. a young woman returning from a...
View ArticleAnti-Rape Movement: A Horizon beyond Legalism and Sociology
Bhumika Chauhan, Ankit Sharma and Paresh Chandra The project of systemic transformation does not allow one the liberty to pick and choose battles, points of entry, like commodities in the market...
View Article