Women

On the picket line

Northwest longshore workers struggle The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, whose members operate port terminals and shipping lines on 29…

May 26, 2014

Rhode Islanders build ‘Women of All Colors’ Assembly for International Women’s Day

Providence, R.I. -- A multinational grouping of women came together on Feb. 8 for the first Women's Assembly Planning Committee…

February 19, 2014

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 27

Cuban women and Cuban ‘marriage’ “With a bleeding eye in their hands, a sergeant and several other men went to…

January 11, 2014

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 19

Women were the first slaves Part 18 of this series dealt generally with the historic innovation of private property, specifically…

October 3, 2013

Women speak out against U.S. intervention in Syria

The following is a statement from the International Women’s Alliance, of which the Women's Fightback Network, New York Chapter, is…

September 6, 2013

The struggle continues for women’s equality

The date of Aug. 26 was named Women’s Equality Day in 1971 because that’s the day in 1920 when women,…

September 4, 2013

Real voices behind the 1963 March on Washington

August 28 is the 50th anniversary of that fateful 1963 day in Washington, D.C., when 300,000 people marched and rallied…

August 21, 2013

South Africa commemorates National Women’s Day

August 9 was the anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March on Pretoria, an event that attracted 20,000 women to protest…

August 18, 2013

A brief history of ‘marriage,’ part 9

Women and the struggle for human sociality For anthropologists who subscribe to an evolutionary materialist approach to human origins, the…

July 21, 2013

International Women’s Day actions around the world

International Women’s Day, March 8, was established at a 1910 European socialist women’s conference. It was proposed by German socialist…

March 13, 2013