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"The struggle for gender justice has always been and remains today crucial for the struggle for labour and social justice in general" - Sara Farris

In this excerpt from the introduction to The Right to Have Rights, Stephanie DeGooyer charts the paths taken by Hannah Arendt's phrase. 

In the week of International Women's day and the Women's Strike Sophie Lewis asks us to fight for more than just the right to safe work but also the right to be lazy!

"Say it loud: we can affirm our non-desire to work even if we don't work hard. Even when it comes to making babies who will die if we stop working."

The hunger strikes at Yarl’s Wood are part of a tradition whose ongoing necessity shames us all. From their very inception, immigration detention and the hostile environment have typified a logic of dehumanisation. Whether non-citizens are entitled to the basic goods and services necessary to live a dignified life raises an urgent question about what kind of society we want to live in.

Tithi Bhattacharya reports back from the West Virginia teachers' strike. 

The German Left needs a new road out of the false alternatives of renationalization and humanitarian cosmopolitanism.

At its heart, a politics in feminine ensures that social reproduction is our collective responsibility.

Oklahoma teachers have become the fifth body of school employees to walk out in the past two weeks, adding to fresh picket lines in West Virginia, Toronto, Illinois, and the UK. 

To build a movement that addresses the deep, structural forms of oppression faced by women, it is essential to build a feminism that is anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, and on the side of all oppressed people.

After the Italian election, the old is dying and something superficially different but not all that new has been born.

While Erdoğan's tyranny is tolerated by "the West," "democracy" is no longer even an empty slogan where poor nations of the periphery are concerned.

They are fighting for three things: 1. A 5% raise;  2. A fully funded employee health fund (PEIA); 3. A political system that values public education more than gas and corporations.