As a young teacher in Chicago in the 2010s, I remember cranking up my radio to hear Karen Lewis speak.
Working-class and oppressed women are bearing the brunt of the combined COVID and economic crises in the United States. December’s jobs numbers produced shocking headlines throughout the mainstream media.
The Hyde Amendment, an infamous and far-reaching restriction on access to abortion, has prevented Medicaid recipients and working-class people from accessing abortion services for the last four decades.
Violence against women is an ever prevalent and underlying norm in our society. It can be broken down into many facets. From second-rate treatment in the workplace to domestic, economic and sexual violence, a common thread connects them all — the system that engenders such suffering: capitalism.
Editor’s note: This is a longer version of an article originally published in Breaking the Chains magazine “From Capitalist Cages to Socialist
Breonna Taylor was murdered by Louisville, KY police while asleep in her home in March of this year. Today, the three officers responsible for her death--Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove--were not held responsible for her death.