Women and oppressed genders

International Women’s Day: Women workers rising

Calls for a Women’s Strike ignited International Women’s Day in the U.S. on March 8. Organizers were following up on…

March 14, 2017

Anna Julia Haywood Cooper Vital to Pan-African movement

African-American women from the late 19th century to the early 20th century played a pivotal role in the internationalization of…

March 12, 2017

Lynne Stewart: ¡Presente!

With deep sorrow we report that the courageous people’s attorney, Lynne Stewart, died on March 7. She spent more than…

March 9, 2017

March 8: Women strike!

An International Women’s Strike has been called for March 8, International Women’s Day, by women in more than 50 countries.…

March 8, 2017

Women workers opened first Russian revolution of 1917

One hundred years ago the women workers of St. Petersburg, Russia, began a strike on International Women’s Day which opened…

March 2, 2017

Lucy Parsons: A working-class founder of May Day

The class struggle was at fever pitch in Chicago in 1885. Unemployment was high, wages were low, and food prices…

March 1, 2017

U.S. women plan for international women’s strike

Women who took to the streets Jan. 21 in the U.S. and around the world in a massive show of…

February 26, 2017

Detroit rallies for reproductive justice

Several protests in support of Planned Parenthood and against intensified attacks on women took place in Metro Detroit on Feb.…

February 16, 2017

Lessons of the Sessions nomination

Feb. 13 — The Democratic Party’s inability to stop or even slow down the dramatic shift to the right, represented…

February 13, 2017

U.S. gag rule garrotes global health

The first action President Trump took on his first work day in office was to sign a memorandum signaling a…

February 5, 2017