Women and oppressed genders

SCOTUS ruling: Bigotry behind the fig leaf of religion

The June 17 ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States, in Fulton v. Philadelphia, represents a bigoted attack…

June 25, 2021

Texas: ‘Stop attacks on reproductive rights! No to Senate Bill 8!’

By Gloria Rubac and Kathy Durkin Gov. Gregg Abbott told the media May 19, “Our creator endowed us with the…

June 23, 2021

Atlanta: ‘No Pride in Detention’

Members of several trans and Latinx organizations assembled at the Atlanta ICE headquarters June 15 to declare “No Pride in…

June 22, 2021

Naomi Osaka’s treatment raises question
Are pro athletes exploited workers?

In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels describe the degrading character of work under capitalism, whereby workers “are…

June 8, 2021

Black Trans Lives Matter! CeCe McDonald: the right to self-defense

This is part of an article published Dec. 7, 2012, in Workers World in the series of articles by Leslie…

June 2, 2021

A salute to Madeline Davis

Madeline Davis, a mentor, role model and trailblazer in the LGBTQ+ community of Buffalo, N.Y., died April 28 at the…

May 28, 2021

Seeking justice for Mikayla Miller, Black lesbian teen 

Hopkinton, Mass. May 6 — The death of 16-year-old Black lesbian Mikayla Miller under mysterious circumstances in mid-April has ignited…

May 10, 2021

May Day hero
Lucy Parsons — union organizer, anti-capitalist fighter

Lucy Gonzalez Parsons, an original founder when May Day launched in 1886, was born into slavery in the early 1850s…

May 7, 2021

‘I have rights too’

By Miley Selena Fletcher The following letter is from a transgender incarcerated worker at SCI Forest in Pennsylvania. When I…

April 29, 2021