Women and oppressed genders

<span class="streamer2">Naomi Osaka’s treatment raises question</span> <br />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

<span class="streamer">May Day hero</span><br /> 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

Middle school students in Grants Pass, Oregon, protest anti-transgender school staff

Portland, Ore. In Grants Pass, Ore., a North Middle School assistant principal and a seventh-grade teacher started a petition calling…

April 23, 2021

Working class activists beat back anti-choice bigots

Pensacola, Fla. (Occupied Creek Muscogee land) For four and a half months, abortion rights advocates have been defending the only…

April 16, 2021

For trans people, ‘there should not be for-profit detention centers’

Jupiter Peraza made these slightly edited remarks at an April 1 webinar, “Trans Day of Visibility,” organized by the LGBTQ+…

April 6, 2021

U.S. and Afghanistan: The cynical abuse of ‘women’s rights’

This article, originally published in 2007 in Workers World’s “Lavender & Red” series, exposes an Islamophobic argument hidden under the…

April 6, 2021