Women and oppressed genders

Trans* lives and ‘bathroom bullies’

LGBTQ people continue to be under assault in the U.S. Ruling-class right-wingers are seeking to divide oppressed people and workers…

March 9, 2016

Women rally for justice, liberation in Harlem, N.Y.

The International Working Women’s Day Coalition held its 11th annual march and rally in Harlem, N.Y., on March 5 with…

March 8, 2016

Akai Gurley’s aunt: ‘Time to dismantle this system’

Talk given by Hertencia Petersen at March 5 International Working Women’s Day rally in Harlem, N.Y. Nelson Mandela once said,…

March 8, 2016

Pro-choice women tell Supreme Court: ‘Keep our clinics open!’

While several thousand pro-choice activists held a spirited, multinational, multigenerational rally outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on March…

March 8, 2016

Helen Keller: Socialist, anti-racist, disability rights activist

Helen Keller is perhaps remembered by most people in the U.S. for one moment in her life, dramatized in the…

March 5, 2016

Dr. Olivia Hooker: Survivor of 1921 Tulsa race riot

Dr. Olivia Hooker is a 101-year-old survivor of the horrific racist attack on the African-American community in Tulsa, Okla., known…

March 2, 2016

Activists stop sexist events

By Colleen Gillan and David Card Baltimore The Baltimore chapter of Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (FIST), a radical youth organization,…

February 10, 2016

Planned Parenthood vindicated: Makers of fraudulent videos indicted

In a dramatic turnaround, two of the right-wingers who created a fraudulent series of videos designed to discredit and ultimately…

February 4, 2016

Attacks on abortion rights spiked in 2015

Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in 1973, took a beating in 2015. Yet despite all…

January 13, 2016

Jailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrants

Women prisoners in the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, Calif., are on hunger strike in solidarity with detained immigrants. In…

December 22, 2015