Fifty years ago, the US Supreme Court passed its famous Roe v. Wade ruling, providing abortion rights to women in America. Today, these same rights are being ripped up. The fight to end women’s oppression must be a fight for socialist revolution.
Comrades of the IMT in Italy were attacked by right wingers and supporters of identity politics for raising slogans against Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at a women’s demonstration.
Efforts to suppress the protest movement in Iran have only further agitated the masses. Most importantly, a series of strikes have started in the oil and petrochemical sector.
The brutal killing of Jîna Emînî by the Iranian “Morality Police” ignited a militant mass movement across Kurdistan. The only way forward is a revolutionary mass struggle using working-class methods.
The striking down of Roe v. Wade is a symptom of the senile decay of US capitalism. The Supreme Court’s decision is a stark wake-up call for all workers.