Women and oppressed genders

Advancing liberation for nine decades, Vietnam Women’s Union

Women organizers of economic and political struggles in New York exchanged experiences with their sisters from the Vietnam Women’s Union…

April 9, 2019

Georgia, #1 in maternal deaths, passes country’s most restrictive abortion law

The Georgia legislature succeeded in passing the most restrictive law governing access to abortion in the country on March 29,…

April 4, 2019

Strikes, mass protests mark global International Women’s Day

International Working Women's Day was founded in 1910 at an International Women's Socialist Conference in Copenhagen to strengthen global solidarity…

March 27, 2019

Boston: ‘Resistance, Remembrance and Revolution’

"Uphold the legacy of women's resistance! Women and gender-oppressed peoples are in the forefront of global fightback!" was the call…

March 27, 2019

Elizabeth Jennings — a New York City pioneer

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955,…

March 21, 2019

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and garment workers today

More than a century ago, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City was a notoriously anti-union company and the…

March 21, 2019

Cuban women describe their ‘revolution within the Revolution’

“[T]he Cuban woman, in the dark and quiet corner of the home, awaits … the hour, in which a revolution…

March 20, 2019

Solidarity with women worldwide

The International Working Women’s Day Coalition held its annual rally, march and forum here on March 17 to reinforce its…

March 20, 2019

Title X changes promote right-wing, “faith-based” agenda

The Trump administration’s new rules for Title X, the reproductive health care program serving 4 million low-income women, has two…

March 15, 2019

Anna Chambers says “NO” to NYPD rapists

In September 2017, 18-year-old Anna Chambers was falsely detained and raped by two members of the New York Police Department…

March 15, 2019