At the end of this week, women around Australia will march to Reclaim the Night, to protest violence against women and demand their right to participate in society fully and in safety.
The capitalist media usually promote the idea that women's experience of violence is only at the hands of individual, violent men. Green Left Weekly puts a fuller point of view. We examine and reveal the systemic causes of violence, and how capitalism uses sexism and the threat of sexual violence as a way to divide all working people — each sex against the other, and against our own.
The dominant images of women in the establishment media reinforce sexist stereotypes. They also promote negative self-images in readers and viewers, contributing to the epidemic of self-directed violence amongst women, including eating disorders and cosmetic surgery.
In contrast, Green Left Weekly empowers women. It reports on the struggle for women's liberation with frequent news and discussion items, special features on the history of the women's movement and the weekly column, and ain't i a woman, which covers topical issues and analysis of events concerning women.
But the women who contribute to GLW don't only write on issues of women's liberation. Unlike in the establishment press, where writing by women is mostly relegated to the cooking or fashion pages, women write for GLW on every aspect of politics, from trade union activism to environmental issues, from the state of the left internationally to Australian society today.
If you are feminist, or if you are anti-racist, internationalist, an environmentalist, and serious about social justice, then this paper is for you. Subscribe to Green Left Weekly — it's your paper.