NARGES MOHAMMADI

Narges Mohammadi, a professional engineer, is a 51-year-old Iranian wife and mother of two, who is serving a 10-year prison sentence imposed in May 2016 for spreading propaganda against the state. She is held at the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Her husband, Taghi Rahmani, to whom she was married in 1999, moved to France […]

SEX FOR WOMEN WAS BETTER UNDER SOCIALISM

Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was a leading Bolshevik and the earliest champion of women’s rights under the new Soviet government. From an aristocratic background, she was attracted to left wing ideas as a student and in 1899 joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, under which name the communists were first organized. Kollontai devoted her energies, […]