In this episode, Oden talks to Sasha Yaropolskaya, a Russian revolutionary trans activist and immigrant in France, about the rightward shift on LGBTQ+ rights. They discuss what it means to be at the end of the era of progressive neoliberalism, and how decades of pursuing a strategy of lesser evilism has led to betrayal for the oppressed. But LGBTQ+ people are not powerless in the face of these attacks. The antidote is working-class unity and revolutionary politics to overcome the Right's divisive tactics. It means building up a working-class party with an internationalist, socialist perspective, able to fight exploitation and all oppression. 

Sasha is organized in Revolution Permanente (Left Voice's sister group) and its feminist and LGBT group, Du Pain et Des Roses. 

Listen to our previous episode about the fight for trans rights. 

 Learn More:
- A Marxist Take on the Attack on Trans Rights

- The Working Class Must Fight for Trans Rights

- Nancy Fraser and Counterhegemony

- The Antidote to Midterm Despair Is Socialist Feminism

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