Gender ideology is in decline: what next?
The recent Supreme Court ruling has merited a discussion on growth and impact of gender ideology on the left, and the importance of defending materialism in the workers’ movement.
Towards working class unity on sex and gender
Eben Williams makes the case for a materialist stance on the sex and gender debate
Leninism is not radical feminism and it cannot accommodate it
Marxism-Leninism and radical feminism: while there sometimes appear to be mutual sympathies on topical issues, let’s be upfront about why we are not the same, says the Challenge editorial team
Remembering the Kirkby Rent Strike
50 years old this year, Sam Fury writes on the important legacy that the Kirkby Rent Strike left for housing campaigners in Britain
Young women are facing massive sexualised pressures – they need support and understanding
The ‘sex work is work’ narrative can divide generations, but Phoebe Williams argues that giving younger women a chance to evolve their opinions is key
In opposition to ‘sex work’
Kirsty Brown critiques the liberal notion ‘sex work is work’
The path to women’s liberation
Zoe McKeown writes on the importance of Marxist feminism in achieving women’s liberation
Pornography, technology and the growing threat of sadomasochism in an alienated world
Modern cultural alienation is reinforced by pornography, the pentagon of misogyny
Chinese divorce court orders husband to pay ex-wife in landmark ruling
A Chinese man in Beijing’s Fangshan district was ordered by a court to pay $7,700 /50,000 yuan/£5,460 as ‘housework compensation’ to his ex-wife who carried out the work during their five year marriage, sparking a heated debate in China.
What is socialist feminism?
Socialist, or Marxist, feminism is feminism with a class analysis – feminism explored through the angle of class as the primary, and arguably strongest, oppressor. To go back to its very basics, Marxism is the intrinsic knowledge that societies are built on a hierarchy and are unequal – capitalism depends on this inequality. The capital […]
