Fighting for women’s liberation – Victorian Socialists

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

This groundbreaking collection explores the profound power of Social Reproduction Theory to deepen our understanding of everyday life under capitalism. While many Marxists tend to focus on the productive economy, this book focuses on issues such as child care, health care, education, family life and the roles of gender, race and sexuality, all of which are central to understanding the relationship between economic exploitation and social oppression. In this book, leading writers such as Lise Vogel, Nancy Fraser, David McNally and Susan Ferguson reveal the ways in which daily and generational reproductive labour, found in households, schools, hospitals and prisons, also sustains the drive for accumulation. Presenting a more sophisticated alternative to intersectionality, these essays provide ideas which have important strategic implications for anti-capitalists, anti-racists and feminists attempting to find a path through the seemingly ever more complex world we live in.

Opposing racism – we’re stronger together – Victorian Socialists

Racism serves the rich and powerful by dividing workers. We’re fighting for working-class unity against racism so we can build a better society for everyone.

Workers' power – Victorian Socialists

Everyone deserves well paid, secure work. We’re fighting for the right to strike, a $35 minimum wage on government-funded work, and an end to wage theft.

Defend democracy and the right to protest – Victorian Socialists

Civil liberties are under sustained attack.. Democracy means the freedom to organise, speak out and protest without fear of repression.

Fix the health crisis – Victorian Socialists

Healthcare should be universal and free, not for profit. We’re fighting for fully funded public health and the expansion of free community health clinics.

Victorian Labor makes abortion access easier amid fears One Nation could try to wind it back

‘We don’t want to see any winding back of women’s rights,’ health minister says before state election

Feminism | The Paper Pilot

The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology

Freedom Now | Polity: Vol 52, No 3

Left-wing politics is resurgent. Self-proclaimed socialists are unexpectedly popular. Proposals like universal health care are a commonplace of Democratic campaigns. But there is not yet a clear, unifying idea behind this political shift. We propose that that idea is freedom. While the left once understood freedom as emancipation from the economy, the right spent the twentieth century neutralizing and appropriating the idea of freedom by reinventing the economy as the true site of freedom. To reclaim freedom as a value of the left, we have to begin with the daily experience of most people: the unfreedom of the workplace. The authoritarian organization of work is not just an offense against freedom; it also helps us understand how freedom requires emancipation both from the economy and within the economy, and why that emancipation requires mass struggle.

Re-enchanting the world : feminism and the politics of the commons

xviii, 227 pages ; 23 cm; "Silvia Federici is one of the most important contemporary theorists of capitalism and feminist movements. In this collection of her work spanning over twenty years, she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the "new enclosures" at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation. Considering the commons from a feminist perspective, this collection centers on women and reproductive work as crucial to both our economic survival and the construction of a world free from the hierarchies and divisions capital has planted in the body of the world proletariat. Federici is clear that the commons should not be understood as happy islands in a sea of exploitative relations but rather autonomous spaces from which to challenge the existing capitalist organization of life and labor"--; Foreward by Peter Linebaugh; Includes bibliographical references (pages198-216) and index; On primitive accumulation, globalization, and reproduction -- Introduction to the new enclosures -- The debt crisis, Africa, and the new enclosures -- China: breaking the iron rice bowl -- From commoning to debt: financialization, microcredit, and the changing architecture of capital accumulation -- Beneath the United States, the Commons -- Commons against and beyond Capitalism -- The University: a knowledge common? -- Feminism and the politics of the commons in an era of primitive accumulation -- Women's struggles for land in Africa and the reconstruction of the commons -- Women's struggles for land and the common good in Latin America -- Marxism, feminism, and the commons -- From crisis to commons: reproductive work, affective labor and technology, and the transformation of everyday life -- Re-enchanting the world: technology, the body, and the construction of the commons

Women, Gender Equality and Family Violence - Platform | The Australian Greens

Women and gender diverse people have had enough of violence, inequality, discrimination, and being ignored by the major parties.

Re-enchanting the world: feminism and the politics of the commons

Silvia Federici is one of the most important contempora…

Anarchy and modern convenience

A major part of anarchy and socialism is the concept of anti-work. An obsession with work is a colonial, patriarchal, and capitalist construct. As such, the anti-work movement—a focus on working less overall and sharing labor more equally—is an important part of decolonization, feminism, and anti-capitalism. A common criticism of this is that reducing the amount everyone works to something like 20 hours a week instead of 40+ means we would have to give up a lot of conveniences.

Jasmine Duff – Victorian Socialists

We’ve seen how Labor and the Liberals treat ordinary people, and there’s no hope in waiting for them to change. Real change always comes from the bottom up.

Why Open-Source Needs More Feminism | Built In

In open source, as in life, hidden labor goes unrewarded.

Arts and culture for the enjoyment of all – Victorian Socialists

Art should belong to everyone, not just the rich. We’re fighting for stronger support for emerging artists, museums, galleries, theatres and live music.