Gender & Sexuality
Trump’s War on Women: The First 100 Days
The first 100 days of the Trump administration were marked by attacks to women's rights, attempts to co-opt feminism by Ivanka Trump and a new feminist resistance.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
May 3, 2017Melania, Get off the Stage
Last week, Melania attended two events that addressed women’s rights and women’s leadership. There is an attempt at branding Melania as a “women’s rights” first lady, despite her husband’s sexism in words and actions.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
April 3, 2017“Feminists are currently leading the way”
After the bigger and more widespread mobilizations around an internationally coordinated call this 8 March, International Women’s Day, than have been seen for many years, Penelope Duggan from International Viewpoint spoke to Cinzia Arruzza, one of the organizers of the US Women’s Strike and a well-known Marxist feminist writer and activist, about the broader significance of these mobilizations.
Cinzia Arruzza
March 20, 201710,000 at International Women’s Day in Berlin
At two different demonstrations on Wednesday, ten thousand people came onto the streets of Berlin in defense of women's rights. Their goal was to combine anti-sexist and anti-racist struggles. Striking workers were also present.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 12, 2017Largest Mexican Women’s Day of the 21st Century
In Mexico City, 10,000 women took to the streets on Wednesday as park of the International Women's Strike. The socialist women's organization "Pan y Rosas" (Bread and Roses) organized a block of 300 workers and youth.
Nathaniel Flakin
March 9, 2017International Women’s Day: Feminism and Workers’ Movements
On March 8, thousands of women around the world took to the streets and went on strike. What is International Women's Day and where did it come from?
Angela Dunne
March 9, 2017Women on Strike: Reclaiming Socialism for International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day (previously known as International Working Women’s Day) was created by socialists to commemorate the women garment workers’ strike in 1908. These two aspects of March 8 -- workers’ mobilizations and socialism -- must be forcefully taken up in the Trump era.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
March 8, 2017Rise Up With the Women of the World
The women's movement rejects the fake symbolism of a few wealthy women on top--even women of color--as our inspiration or goal. We--poor, working-class, immigrant, black, trans disabled--are the leaders we have been waiting for.
Julia Wallace
March 7, 2017International Women’s Day in the Land of Femicides
Left Voice interviews Mexican socialist, Joss Espinoza. She is a student at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and an activist in the socialist women's organization "Pan y Rosas" (Bread and Roses).
Joss Espinosa
March 7, 2017Maquila Workers Against Femicide and Exploitation
The conditions of the Mexican working class are a product of the United States’ imperialist relationship with Mexico which has been perpetuated by both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.
Ximena Goldman
March 7, 2017