Women and oppressed genders

Coast to coast, marchers declare: ‘Black trans lives matter!’

“Say his name! Tony McDade!” These words rang out on June 20 as hundreds of Clevelanders, members of the LGBTQ2S+…

June 23, 2020

Domestic violence: ‘The epidemic within the pandemic’

“My husband won’t let me leave the house” has become an all-too-familiar cry for help since the mandatory lockdown was…

June 10, 2020

Police terror, COVID-19 are women’s issues

These slightly edited remarks were given by Monica Moorehead at a June 7 International Women’s Alliance webinar: “Building our militant…

June 10, 2020

Black Lives Matter solidarity: No Pride without justice!

Fifty-one years ago cops assaulted and arrested LGBTQ2+ people — mostly Black and Latinx people — at the Stonewall Bar…

June 9, 2020

Alabama clinic bought by abortion rights group

On May 15, 2019, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed into law one of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in the…

May 26, 2020

Pandemics have a way of fomenting social revolutions

The following is a slightly edited talk given during the Workers World Party webinar “What Road to Socialism?” on May…

May 25, 2020

Women and gender-nonconforming people: Nothing to lose but our chains

This is a slightly edited version of a talk given during the “What Road To Socialism?” webinar held by Workers…

May 20, 2020

Philadelphia: #FreeBlackMamas demand prisoner release

Philadelphia Protesters, led by currently and formerly incarcerated women, trans and non gender-binary people, held a rally on May 15…

May 18, 2020

Andrea Circle Bear and six centuries of genocide

Andrea Circle Bear, of the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation near Eagle Butte, S.D., was the 29th federal inmate to die…

May 14, 2020

Trump v. birth control case heard by Supreme Court

Health care is the most pressing issue in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. So it’s in keeping with the…

May 13, 2020