https://znetwork.org/category/topic/kinship/feminism/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:44:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/topic/kinship/feminism/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-historical-blockage-to-radical-rupture-the-ontological-revolution-of-socialism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-historical-blockage-to-radical-rupture-the-ontological-revolution-of-socialism/#respond Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:44:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1294509 ​The intellectual framework of new socialism gains meaning through the transcendence of the three main pillars of modernity: statism, industrialism, and hierarchical rationality. These three pillars have been reproduced in different forms throughout history. Capitalism reinforced them through the dogmas of growth, competition, and the market. Traditional socialism, on the other hand, preserved these three [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/from-historical-blockage-to-radical-rupture-the-ontological-revolution-of-socialism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-black-feminist-collective-that-gave-us-identity-politics/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-black-feminist-collective-that-gave-us-identity-politics/#respond Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293540 Hammer & Hope co-founder Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor has written a new introduction for an expanded second edition of How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, which includes the groundbreaking statement, along with interviews and essays reflecting on its impact, among them a new interview with Angela Y. Davis. In this excerpt from the introduction, Taylor describes the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-black-feminist-collective-that-gave-us-identity-politics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shackles-in-mentality-and-ocalans-revolution-of-mentality/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shackles-in-mentality-and-ocalans-revolution-of-mentality/#respond Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:03:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293387 ​The radical breakthrough quality of Abdullah Öcalan’s thought stems not only from exceeding the limits of the classical leftist paradigm but from the structural critique he directs toward the entirety of modernity. This critique is aimed at analyzing the integrated system of power that modernity has built around progress, growth, rationality, the nation-state, capitalist economy, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/shackles-in-mentality-and-ocalans-revolution-of-mentality/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-making-of-a-maga-martyr/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-making-of-a-maga-martyr/#respond Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:12:21 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293119 In the wake of the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, President Donald Trump quickly took up the cause of a 35-year-old veteran named Ashli Babbitt. “Who killed Ashli Babbitt?” he asked in a one-sentence statement on July 1, 2021.  “An innocent, wonderful, incredible woman, a military woman,” Trump said during a Fox [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-making-of-a-maga-martyr/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/historical-blockages-of-the-left-and-the-radical-rupture-of-ocalan/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/historical-blockages-of-the-left-and-the-radical-rupture-of-ocalan/#comments Mon, 29 Dec 2025 19:27:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292894 ​To understand the historical blockage of the Left, one must first expose its internal contradictions. The Left claims to criticize the state but fails to interrogate the state’s ontology. It asserts a rejection of power, yet fails to realize that its own visions of authority reproduce the same hierarchical patterns. ​While the Left emphasizes its [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/historical-blockages-of-the-left-and-the-radical-rupture-of-ocalan/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dating-in-the-age-of-the-algorithm/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dating-in-the-age-of-the-algorithm/#respond Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:55:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292550 Who controls love: Men, women, or capital? At first, the question sounds absurd. Love in the modern era is supposed to be the most personal of experiences, untouched by politics or economics. Yet in the age of dating apps, it has become one of the central battlegrounds of contemporary life. Across the world, an increasing [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/dating-in-the-age-of-the-algorithm/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anuradha-ghandy-between-marxism-and-feminism-a-reading-in-the-biography-of-a-revolutionary-indian-intellectual/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anuradha-ghandy-between-marxism-and-feminism-a-reading-in-the-biography-of-a-revolutionary-indian-intellectual/#respond Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292414 Throughout history, women have played crucial roles on both global and local levels. They have fought for rights, participated in governments, led nations, excelled in the arts and sciences, and inspired generations. Yet their stories have often been marginalized or their impact diminished within historical narratives dominated by male perspectives.The series “Women Who Changed History” [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/anuradha-ghandy-between-marxism-and-feminism-a-reading-in-the-biography-of-a-revolutionary-indian-intellectual/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-are-we-failing-to-end-one-of-humanitys-oldest-and-most-pervasive-injustices/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-are-we-failing-to-end-one-of-humanitys-oldest-and-most-pervasive-injustices/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:05:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291917 Few weeks ago, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had said: “Violence against women is one of humanity’s oldest and most pervasive injustices, yet still one of the least acted upon. No society can call itself fair, safe or healthy while half its population lives in fear. Ending this violence [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-are-we-failing-to-end-one-of-humanitys-oldest-and-most-pervasive-injustices/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/welcome-to-donald-trumps-u-s-a/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/welcome-to-donald-trumps-u-s-a/#respond Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:57:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291832 It’s strange so many years later, in the United States of America, to feel as if I’m living in a country threatening to become like the Russia of Vladimir Putin that I spent years experiencing earlier in this century. To start, let me tell you a little something about that. For decades as a young adult, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/welcome-to-donald-trumps-u-s-a/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unity-consciousness-and-struggle-afghan-womens-fight-to-eliminate-oppression-and-barbarism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unity-consciousness-and-struggle-afghan-womens-fight-to-eliminate-oppression-and-barbarism/#comments Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:29:00 +0000 For decades, women in Afghanistan have been among the first and easiest victims of fundamentalist fascism and imperialism. In every era and under every ruling regime, misogynistic policies and practices have either persisted or intensified. In Afghanistan’s patriarchal and feudal order, women are either confined within their homes—stripped of their humanity—or exploited as props in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/unity-consciousness-and-struggle-afghan-womens-fight-to-eliminate-oppression-and-barbarism/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-the-state-the-pkks-socialism-of-the-21st-century/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-the-state-the-pkks-socialism-of-the-21st-century/#respond Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:11:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291834 We celebrate the 47th anniversary of the official establishment of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) (November 27, 1978). ​The emergence of the PKK at the end of the 1970s should be assessed as a moment that triggered a deep rupture, not only in Turkey’s political history but also within the multi-layered social structures trapped in [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/beyond-the-state-the-pkks-socialism-of-the-21st-century/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontological-disintegration-of-capitalist-modernity-and-the-origins-of-misogynistic-violence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontological-disintegration-of-capitalist-modernity-and-the-origins-of-misogynistic-violence/#respond Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:29:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291629 The global crisis of the 21st century is not merely a temporary geopolitical instability, but an ontological moment of disintegration where Capitalist Modernity has reached its structural limits and attempts to violently restructure itself. ​The chain of conflicts marking this era must be understood as a Third World War conducted simultaneously across economic, political, cultural, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontological-disintegration-of-capitalist-modernity-and-the-origins-of-misogynistic-violence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-womens-freedom-in-a-nations-memory-understanding-delal-amed/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-womens-freedom-in-a-nations-memory-understanding-delal-amed/#respond Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:59:49 +0000 To understand a person is sometimes to hold onto the sentence they left behind:  “The thought that if I fall as a martyr one day, I will leave a deep pain in the heart of my people, already hurts me…”  This saying is spoken not about the aesthetics of death, but about the responsibility of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ontology-of-womens-freedom-in-a-nations-memory-understanding-delal-amed/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-truth-of-society-ideological-consistency-and-the-construction-of-the-freedom-paradigm-the-universal-meaning-of-the-kurdistan-experience/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-truth-of-society-ideological-consistency-and-the-construction-of-the-freedom-paradigm-the-universal-meaning-of-the-kurdistan-experience/#respond Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:18:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290880 Social freedom is not merely a historical process, but the re-establishment of the human mind, its moral coordinates, and its existential horizon. If a people wishes to transform its destiny, it must first transform its way of thinking, its value system, and its framework for perceiving itself.  Freedom is as much a liberation from external [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-truth-of-society-ideological-consistency-and-the-construction-of-the-freedom-paradigm-the-universal-meaning-of-the-kurdistan-experience/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/human-rights-beyond-liberalism-ocalans-call-for-a-democratic-alternative/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/human-rights-beyond-liberalism-ocalans-call-for-a-democratic-alternative/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:01:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290793 The allegedly free individual of capitalist individualism, who has been provoked into being at odds with society, essentially lives a life of abject slavery. ~Abdullah Öcalan1 For many years a human rights discourse has been the main point of reference for the Western-type liberal republicanism. What distinguishes the regimes of this kind from others, according [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/human-rights-beyond-liberalism-ocalans-call-for-a-democratic-alternative/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-woman-liberation-paradigm-and-the-universal-claim-of-the-kurdistan-revolution/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-woman-liberation-paradigm-and-the-universal-claim-of-the-kurdistan-revolution/#respond Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:53:57 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290790 “The model we aim to develop is neither a woman dissolved within the man nor a structure that is entirely anti-male. On the contrary, it necessitates a framework that secures both her freedom and a free life with equality through appropriate means.”  — Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan  This striking observation by Kurdish People’s Leader [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-woman-liberation-paradigm-and-the-universal-claim-of-the-kurdistan-revolution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/preserving-hard-won-gains-feminist-voices-on-the-future-of-gender-equality/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/preserving-hard-won-gains-feminist-voices-on-the-future-of-gender-equality/#respond Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:45:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290368 Gender equality is enshrined in the opening preamble of United Nations Charter 1945. But despite progress and some setbacks, not a single country has delivered 100% on gender equality. Is the sinister link between capitalism, corporate capture, religious fundamentalism, militarisation, politics of power and gender inequality, the reason why progress on gender equality remains off [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/preserving-hard-won-gains-feminist-voices-on-the-future-of-gender-equality/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-keeps-detaining-pregnant-immigrants-against-federal-policy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-keeps-detaining-pregnant-immigrants-against-federal-policy/#respond Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:27:36 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290209 Cary López Alvarado, of Hawthorne, California,  was nine months pregnant when she was arrested by immigration officials alongside her husband, an immigrant from Guatemala. Alvarado was held overnight but was never sent to a detention facility: After taking her into custody, ICE learned she was a U.S. citizen.  Immediately after her release, she began to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ice-keeps-detaining-pregnant-immigrants-against-federal-policy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-development-of-marxism-from-a-feminist-perspective-series-women-who-changed-history/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-development-of-marxism-from-a-feminist-perspective-series-women-who-changed-history/#respond Mon, 13 Oct 2025 13:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289901 Róża Luksemburg (1871 – 1919) “Women Who Changed History” Series (2) Introduction Throughout history, women have played crucial roles on both global and local scales. They have fought for rights, participated in governments, led nations, excelled in the arts and sciences, and inspired successive generations. Despite this, their stories have often been marginalized or their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-development-of-marxism-from-a-feminist-perspective-series-women-who-changed-history/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grassroots-rise-in-ecuador-strike/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grassroots-rise-in-ecuador-strike/#respond Sun, 12 Oct 2025 15:45:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289830 Nancy Bedón is the vice president of the Union of Peasant Organizations of Esmeraldas (UOCE), part of the Indigenous movement that called for the ongoing national strike in response to measures taken by the Noboa administration in Ecuador. The strike began on September 15, and was convened by the Confederation of Indigenous Nations of Ecuador [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/grassroots-rise-in-ecuador-strike/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/was-the-20th-century-a-catastrophe-or-a-miracle-aaron-bastani-meets-yanis-varoufakis/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/was-the-20th-century-a-catastrophe-or-a-miracle-aaron-bastani-meets-yanis-varoufakis/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:03:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289578 Our guest on Downstream this week is the economist, and former finance minister of Greece, Yanis Varoufakis. He joins Aaron in the Novara studio to discuss his most recent book Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance, a memoir about the women in Yanis’ family who raised him, and gave him his political conscience. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/was-the-20th-century-a-catastrophe-or-a-miracle-aaron-bastani-meets-yanis-varoufakis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-isnt-the-first-time-moms-have-been-blamed-for-their-kids-autism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-isnt-the-first-time-moms-have-been-blamed-for-their-kids-autism/#respond Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:59:08 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289464 JJ Hanley can still remember the pediatrician’s words. It was the early ’90s, and the mother of two in suburban Chicago had begun to worry that her toddler-age son, Tim, was showing language delays and other behaviors that didn’t align with his older brother’s development. Hanley turned to her son’s doctor, who declared: “There’s nothing [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-isnt-the-first-time-moms-have-been-blamed-for-their-kids-autism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nina-bang-the-marxist-historian-who-opened-the-doors-of-power-to-women-series-women-who-changed-history/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nina-bang-the-marxist-historian-who-opened-the-doors-of-power-to-women-series-women-who-changed-history/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:49:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288878 Nina Bang1866 – 1928 Introduction Throughout history, women have played decisive roles both globally and locally. They struggled for rights, participated in governments, led nations, excelled in the arts and sciences, and inspired generations. Yet their stories were often marginalized or their impact diminished in historical narratives dominated by male perspectives. The series Women Who Changed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nina-bang-the-marxist-historian-who-opened-the-doors-of-power-to-women-series-women-who-changed-history/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/she-survived-141-days-in-ice-custody-thanks-to-a-beautiful-sisterhood-now-shes-fighting-for-those-still-inside/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/she-survived-141-days-in-ice-custody-thanks-to-a-beautiful-sisterhood-now-shes-fighting-for-those-still-inside/#respond Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:18:25 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288867 On the evening of Feb. 11, 22-year-old Ward Sakeik sat on a plane from the U.S. Virgin Islands to Miami. She and her husband, Taahir Shaikh, were returning from their honeymoon, but he was sitting a few rows away. She didn’t look back at him — her handlers told her that even smiling at him [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/she-survived-141-days-in-ice-custody-thanks-to-a-beautiful-sisterhood-now-shes-fighting-for-those-still-inside/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/women-judges-see-rising-threats-to-their-work-and-clear-paths-to-defusing-them/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/women-judges-see-rising-threats-to-their-work-and-clear-paths-to-defusing-them/#respond Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:19:17 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288578 Federal judges rarely defend their work publicly. The typical mandate for those in the judiciary is to let their decisions speak for themselves. Commentary outside of that risks being criticized as biased or politically motivated. But as political violence rises against public figures, and as public confidence in the judicial system shrinks, current and former [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/women-judges-see-rising-threats-to-their-work-and-clear-paths-to-defusing-them/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/considering-marxs-ideas-of-a-non-alienated-labor-and-life-as-a-basis-for-a-socialist-humanist-and-feminist-alternative-to-capitalism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/considering-marxs-ideas-of-a-non-alienated-labor-and-life-as-a-basis-for-a-socialist-humanist-and-feminist-alternative-to-capitalism/#respond Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:13:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287750 [This article is part of a short series on Marxism and its relevance for left resistance in today’s challenging geopolitical and ecological climate, and for the continuing effort to win a better world beyond immediate crises. A previous ZNetwork article written by Michael Albert, entitled Should Our Resistance Enrich or Transcend Marxism?, was the catalyst for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/considering-marxs-ideas-of-a-non-alienated-labor-and-life-as-a-basis-for-a-socialist-humanist-and-feminist-alternative-to-capitalism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/magas-misogynist-essence/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/magas-misogynist-essence/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:52:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287451 On July 10th, the Trump White House announced the nomination of Nick Adams to be US ambassador to Malaysia.  A native of Australia who became a US citizen in 2021 as well as a Newsmax TV commentator, what most distinguishes Adams as a political figure is his blatant sexism. In his career as a social [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/magas-misogynist-essence/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rohingya-women-carry-not-just-a-story-of-pain-but-a-plan-for-change/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rohingya-women-carry-not-just-a-story-of-pain-but-a-plan-for-change/#respond Mon, 18 Aug 2025 18:34:30 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287445 “In the Rohingya refugee communities, especially with whom I work, the progress on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)-3 (health and wellbeing) and SDG-5 (gender equality) has been deeply uneven and fragile – there have been small but significant steps forward,” said Noor Fatima, Specialist in Education Policy and Equity, Rohingya Maìyafuìnor Collaborative Network. “We now see [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/rohingya-women-carry-not-just-a-story-of-pain-but-a-plan-for-change/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chilean-feminists-regroup-under-progressive-rule/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chilean-feminists-regroup-under-progressive-rule/#respond Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287363 Chile’s transfeminist movement faces an uncertain future after a decade of achievements, breakthroughs, and creative political strategies. We are living in a time that demands deep reflection in order to avoid caving to the opacity of the present. Feminist fervor erupted in Chile during what became known as “Feminist May” in 2018. That uprising, led [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/chilean-feminists-regroup-under-progressive-rule/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:34:46 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287079 Tomorrow, as the Abahlali baseMjondolo Women’s League, we will come together to hold a political camp under the theme: “20 Years of Women’s Resistance – Ubuhlalism Begins with Us.” This theme allows us to reflect together on the long and difficult road we have travelled. We will remember the founding of the Abahlali baseMjondolo Movement [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/womens-day-political-camp/feed/ 0