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Monthly Archives: August 2017

“Trans women are women” – Identity politics takes aim at women’s emancipation

August 28, 2017by James Robb 17 Comments

It’s worth reminding ourselves that once, not so long ago, there was a mass movement for women’s rights – a social and political movement, led by women, that mobilised people […]

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censorship, class struggle, health care, identity politics, sexual violence, slander, women's equality, working class

“Sex work is work” – the New Zealand Model of misogyny

August 13, 2017by James Robb 11 Comments

It is easy to underestimate the current  ideological and political drive against women, and the degree to which it threatens the gains made in the struggle for women’s equality from […]

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abortion, alienation, Marxist theory, New Zealand history, pornography, prostitution, sexual violence, women's equality

Larissa Reisner and the German revolution of 1923

August 3, 2017by James Robb 4 Comments

In a vain effort to escape from the disgusting trivia of the New Zealand elections, I have been reading Hamburg at the Barricades, Larissa Reisner’s1 account of the failed German […]

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