This article is a continuation of the last instalment of this column, which concluded by highlighting the transformative power of a single legal victory in the US – the granting, in 1973, of the right for women to have an abortion – and the overturning of that right through its being muted by the passage of time and the hegemony of new forces of influence and conservative movements gathered to upset the status quo. It is not only the left that have movements; the right does too. Let’s remove all illusions that the right does not study Antonio Gramsci or Karl Marx.