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Cecilia Palmeiro on the Ni Una Menos Campaign in Argentina and how the idea of a women's strike spread into an international phenomena.

Nisha Kapoor considers the significance of the womens strike in the context of rising Islamophobia and the increased securitisation of muslim women lives, calling for an end to Prevent and the criminalisation of Muslim, refugee, migrant and black women.

To commemorate International Women's Day and the second International Women's Strike, we present a reading list of our favorite books of feminist theory and activism to inspire our ongoing fight for collective liberation.

Despite the way trans and cis women seem to be pitted against each other in the media, Joni Alizah Cohen argues that the demands of both groups are two sides of the same feminist coin, urging cis and trans women to strike together on 8th March! 

In a conversation with Phil O'Brien of the Raymond Williams Society, Michael Denning discusses his four decades of learning from Williams' work. 

Tamás discusses Lukács' philosophy and the attack on his legacy in Orbán's Hungary. 

"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.