Women and oppressed genders

Abortion access now!

The state of Texas is holding hostage a 17-year-old unaccompanied immigrant minor who wants an abortion. Held in a federally…

October 18, 2017

Women’s rights and health care: Battlegrounds in the class struggle

While the very rich may be experiencing an “era of good feeling,” the multinational working class is facing attacks at…

October 14, 2017

East Harlem residents say, ‘Remove the racist Sims’ statue!’

The struggle is growing for the removal of racist Dr. James Marion Sims’ statue from New York City’s Central Park.…

August 31, 2017

Black women’s work and reparations

July 31, 2017, was Black Women’s Equal Pay Day — the day this year that the average total wages a…

August 8, 2017

Trump’s misogyny, a pillar of capitalism

President Donald J. Trump did it again. He lambasted a female news reporter with a crude, bullying tweet on June…

July 8, 2017

Friends and family protest Seattle cops’ killing of mother of three

Two days after the June 16 acquittal of the cop who murdered Philando Castile in Minnesota, Seattle cops murdered a…

June 28, 2017

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…

June 13, 2017

Filipino Women Against Modern Day Slavery

The Atlantic magazine published an article in the June 2017 issue entitled, “My Family’s Slave,” by journalist Alex Tizon.  His…

June 6, 2017

‘We must combat violence against trans women’

The following excerpts are from a talk by Cosmia Bohannan-Blumke on “Trans liberation and Mx. Bostick” at a May 20…

June 2, 2017

Global poor, especially women, under attack

Health care for the poor is under attack globally as well as in the United States. Trump’s expanded, deliberately misnamed…

May 26, 2017