War Profiteers' News: Special issue on gender

Compiling this issue of War Profiteers' News proved a challenge. Feminists argue that all analysis should be gendered analysis, yet it was difficult to apply this learning to war profiteering, at least initially. 'Profit' tempts us to think of capitalism, and not of gender, as the oppressive system by which our attention should be monopolised. Yet capitalism could not easily be a more gendered system. In this issue you can read stories on ISIS, extractivism and climate change, a feminist response to the arms trade treaty, the NRA's "woman problem" and much more.

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