Gender
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Crisis in the Socialist Workers Party reveals a crisis of the left By William Bowles
Hmmm… I’ve been watching the ‘left’ here in the UK tear itself apart literally for decades, and it had been going on for decades prior to my arrival on the scene. What’s difficult to swallow is the attitude expressed below (which I’m reprinting in its entirety), where the writer reacts to the events that are… Continue reading
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HOUSMANS RADICAL BOOKS NEWSLETTER MARCH 2012
24 February 2012 — NEWS 1. Housmans Virtual Book Club2. Competition to win a pair of tickets to Camus’ ‘Caligula’ IN-STORE EVENTS3. Women’s History Month presents: ‘Women’s history: half the future half the past’ with Jessica Metheringham-Owlett4. Coalition of Resistance presents: ‘Eurozone in crisis: what is to be done?’5. Bent Bars presents: ‘Gender and the prison Continue reading
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Gender-Based Violence In Haiti By Stephen Lendman
When rape crimes aren’t investigated or prosecuted, violence is implicitly condoned, making illegal acts normal and justice denied. Most victims are girls under 18 – impoverished, displaced and denied redress under the 2000 UN Resolution 1325 and UN Guiding Principles on International Displacement, requiring a gender-based perspective to ensure their human rights, including preventive measures… Continue reading
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Caster Semenya: An Unlikely Challenger of Sexual Binary and Beauty Images By Jamala Rogers
The South African runner made international headlines when she won the 800 meters in a record-breaking 1 minute 55.45 seconds. Caster Semenya’s victory was eclipsed by claims that she was really a male and therefore had an advantage over her female competitors. Accusations of jealousy quickly came from family and friends; charges of racism came… Continue reading
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"The Indigenous in Honduras Denounce Humiliating Treatment of Honduran Women"
Antonio Martínez, an indigenous leader, via TeleSur, reported on Wednesday that the international agencies that talk so much about gender freedom have the responsibility to speak out against this coup d’état. Continue reading
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Premature Burial By William Bowles
22 June 2005 No matter, the BBC and the rest of the state’s media/propaganda arsenal have effectively buried the Downing Street Minutes here in the UK, preferring to ignore the story rather than mount a counter offensive, no doubt operating on the principle of ‘out of sight, out of mind’. In the US however, the Continue reading
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It’s a Girl’s World By William Bowles
3 August 2004 Anybody who has been reading my serialised novel ‘XX‘ will know that I have an abiding interest in issues surrounding gender. There are lots of reasons for this, not the least my own experience of being a man in a man’s world. It occurred to me that I rarely write about issues Continue reading
The New Dark Age 