Who cleans the world? This urgent question which Françoise Vergès poses at the outset of A Decolonial Feminism sets the tone and trajectory of this powerful book, encouraging readers to wrestle with their preconceived notions of care work and the reproductive labour that working class racialised women engage in.

A Decolonial Feminism
Françoise Vergès (trans. by Ashley J. Bohrer)
Pluto Press, 2021
9780745341125

Transgender Marxism finally acknowledges the necessity of strategies for the working class and oppressed trans people globally, but its dependence on social reproduction theory presents Trotskyism as the acceptable form of trans Marxism.

Transgender Marxism
Edited by Jules Joanne Gleeson & Elle O’Rourke
Pluto, 2021
9780745341668

Recognising LGBT struggles is incredibly simple; it doesn’t require conceding ground to anyone – to the middle class, to reactionary politics, to postmodernism – and with Marxism and Transgender Liberation, Red Fightback recognises this. But it could go further.

Marxism and Transgender Liberation: Confronting Transphobia in the British Left
Red Fightback, 2020
9780244869779