Academics and Students Call for a Nationwide University Shut Down on May Day

Nancy Fraser, David Harvey, Judith Butler, Cornell West, Etienne Balibar and other students and intellectuals sign a petition calling for a moratorium on May 1. The following pledge is being circulated by students, staff, faculty, and administrators across the United States. Sign and circulate this call to action.

Pepsi’s “Protest” Ad: What’s The Real Problem?

This week the famous soda brand got involved in a social media scandal after their new advertisement was accused of ridiculing protests and trivializing the fight against police brutality.

Melania, 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.

All Power to the Rank and File

A case for a workers' insurgency in New York City, and everywhere.

“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.

Woefully Understaffed, Maryland Nurses Fight to Unionize

Suzanne Mintz is a nurse at Holy Cross Hospital in Maryland. Since February 2016, she has been organizing with other nurses to form a union.

Donald Trump, for Women’s Rights?

Trump promised paid family leave and to make childcare accessible and affordable. These measures are long past due in the US, but will Trump deliver?

Trump Revives the Travel Ban

Trump signs an executive order that brings back a version of the Muslim Ban.

School Districts to Close Due to Women’s Strike

Chapel Hill-Carrboro, a North Carolina School District and Alexandria Public Schools (Alexandria, VA) recently put out school closure statements because so many teachers called out for the International Women's Strike.