Heather Benno – Breaking the Chains

Lola Rosa at home, March 1996. Maria Rosa Luna Henson. ("Grandma Rosa") (1927–1997) was the first Filipina who made public her story as a comfort woman (military sex slave) for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second World War.

Violence and sexual labor under American imperialism: A case study of Lola Rosa

By Heather Benno November 12, 2021 0 Comments

Maria Rosa Henson (“Lola Rosa”) was a World War II Filipina war heroine and liberation fighter. She was a member of the Hukbalahap (Huk) guerilla army in the Philippines, fighting

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Capitalism, immigration and women’s lives

By Heather Benno December 20, 2018 0 Comments

Millions of people experience the realities of migration. The circumstances of exploitation, poverty and war that shape this reality and compel people to emigrate are created by the capitalist system

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Breaking the Chains: A Socialist Perspective on Women’s Liberation is a one-of-its-kind feminist, socialist magazine.

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24 Jun

“Today’s ruling proves that the Supreme Court does not exist to protect the rights of the American people, it does not exist to foster and protect equality and constitutional rights.”—Elizabeth Birriel, managing editor of Breaking the Chains. https://peoplesdispatch.org/2022/06/24/us-supreme-court-robs-women-of-nationwide-right-to-abortion/

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24 Jun

With outrageous disregard for women’s equality & bodily autonomy, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to overturn Roe

Now more than ever we cannot sit back and despair. We must take to the streets and make it clear that we will not accept this!

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https://www.breakingthechainsmag.org/supreme-court-eviscerates-abortion-rights-the-time-to-fight-back-is-now/

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24 Jun

Now is not the time to despair—it’s time to fight back, and to study in order to understand our enemy and the system that puts our rights under threat.
That's why we have made the BTC issue on reproductive rights✨free✨to download & study: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X8YDF4J

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