Women and oppressed genders

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

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

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 riotDr. Olivia Hooker: Survivor of 1921 Tulsa race riot

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 eventsActivists stop sexist events

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 indictedPlanned Parenthood vindicated: Makers of fraudulent videos indicted

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 2015Attacks on abortion rights spiked in 2015

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 immigrantsJailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrants

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
Jailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrantsJailed women forge solidarity with detained immigrants

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 18, 2015
Police terror, sexual violence against Black womenPolice terror, sexual violence against Black women

Police terror, sexual violence against Black women

On Dec. 11, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, 29, was convicted of 18 counts of rape and other…

December 15, 2015
Terror and abortion rightsTerror and abortion rights

Terror and abortion rights

Before the Supreme Court’s Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion in 1973, many women died of bleeding, tetanus or infections…

December 10, 2015