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Featured Articles·Socialist Feminism·World News

Rise up for bodily autonomy – International Safe Abortion Day 2023

By Isidora Duran Stewart , Rosa Socialist Feminist Movement organiser — article first published on rosainternational.org “Legal abortion – so as not to die!” – is what is printed across the symbolic green scarves worn by inspiring feminist activists organising all over

Sep 28, 2023

News & Analysis·The North

North: Unite Hospitality and Rosa call for an end to harassment in hospitality

By Saana Taussi, Hospitality worker A recent survey by Unite showed that 90% of hospitality workers experience sexual harassment during work. To workers in hospitality, this hardly comes as a surprise, as the industry is notorious for poor working conditions. The prevalence

May 14, 2023

Socialist Feminism·Uncategorized·World News

“Our Resistance is Not Made of Sand” – report from ROSA international conference

By Elin Gaufin, ISA International Women’s Bureau The first international ROSA conference Women Life Freedom took place on 18 and 19 March, 2023. 200 participants from 19 countries had gathered in the meeting room in Vienna and zoomed in from another 11

Mar 27, 2023

Socialist Feminism·World News

“Give us bread, but give us roses too” — Over 200 attend ROSA International Socialist Feminist Conference, Vienna

By Isidora Duran Stewart (ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement, Ireland) In the wake of International Women’s Day 2023 which saw women, queer people and their siblings in struggle in the labour movement take to the streets globally, over 200 socialist feminists from every

Mar 22, 2023

Featured Articles·News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

#RememberSavita: 5 reasons you should march on 29 October

By Laura Fitzgerald ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement have made the call for a march for health, equality and bodily autonomy on Saturday 29 October, to commemorate Savita on the tenth anniversary of her death, with feminist, LGBTQ, anti-racist, trade union and student

Oct 4, 2022

News & Analysis·Socialist Feminism

End gender violence & this misogynistic system

Text of Socialist Party leaflet given out today at the “Never Again, Not One More” protests against gender-based violence organised by ROSA Socialist Feminist Movement in Cork and Dublin. Since the horrific murder of Ashling Murphy tens of thousands have participated in

Jan 19, 2022

Abortion rights, marriage equality: The North is Now!

By Eleanor Crossey Malone Over three-quarters of MPs in the House of Commons have voted to extend abortion rights and equal marriage here via amendments to the Northern Ireland Bill. If made into law, the amendments would remove the North from the

Aug 7, 2019

#ThisIsNotConsent: Victim-blaming in rape trial provokes mass anger

By Socialist Party reporter “Does the evidence out-rule the possibility that she was attracted to the defendant and was open to meeting someone and being with someone? You have to look at the way she was dressed. She was wearing a thong

Nov 15, 2018

Interview with Argentinian pro-choice activist

The Socialist spoke to Lucia, a pro-choice activist from Argentina living in Ireland, about the recent movement there for bodily autonomy that has seen hundreds of thousands take to the streets in recent months. What made you get involved in the movement?

Sep 26, 2018

International Women’s Day 2018: The fight for abortion rights in Ireland

The following statement was written by Socialist Party member and ROSA activist Laura Fitzgerald for the website of the Committee for a Workers’ International to mark International Women’s Day 2018. International Women’s Day 2018 will be dominated by the issue of abortion

Mar 5, 2018

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