Women and oppressed genders

On the picket line

Bosses retaliate against Hunts Point workers Business retaliation against union organizing is nothing new. Weak laws and minimal fines embolden…

March 12, 2021

Free Khalida Jarrar!

In advance of International Women’s Day on March 8, Israel sentenced one of Palestine’s most prominent women to two years…

March 11, 2021

<span class="streamer">International Working Women’s Day 2021</span><br />The true Amazons of the working class

Today the name Amazon is synonymous with capitalist greed and exploitation. Outside Amazon facilities and Whole Foods stores across the…

March 10, 2021

Nadezhda Krupskaya: Bolshevik revolutionary and educator

Feb. 14 is the birth date of Nadezhda Krupskaya – Bolshevik revolutionary, educator and library advocate. Although born to a…

March 1, 2021

A transgender formerly incarcerated activist speaks out

Lisa Strawn is a transgender woman who spent more than 35 years in California prisons due to that state’s draconian…

February 17, 2021

LGBTQ2S+ youth targeted again in Florida: Defeat HB241/SB582!

Occupied Muscogee Creek/Seminole/Timucua Land In January of 2020, Florida LGBTQ+ organizers mobilized thousands of people against 10 anti-LGBTQ2S+ bills. Introduced…

February 10, 2021

An appreciation of the magnificent Cicely Tyson

Harriet Tubman in “A Woman Called Moses,” “The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman,” as Coretta Scott King in “King,” Rebecca…

February 1, 2021

Anti-abortion extremists attack clinic on Roe v Wade anniversary

This article is in memory of Sue Davis, a decades-long reproductive justice activist who every year in this newspaper commemorated…

January 25, 2021

Women bear brunt of unemployment in COVID economic crisis

The month of December revealed some stunning news affecting the U.S. working class, as the impact of the viral pandemic…

January 19, 2021

Lisa Montgomery’s execution: ‘We cannot let this happen again’

This lightly edited statement was issued by Attorney Kelley Henry on the execution of Lisa Montgomery on Jan. 13 at…

January 18, 2021