Womens’ Rights

Women in Gaza: “Sleep Is a Luxury We Cannot Afford”
November 25 is the International Day Against Gender-Based Violence and organizations and activists from diverse countries around the world are calling to mobilize for a Global Feminist Action for Palestine,
Andrea D'Atri
November 25, 2023From “Women, Life, Freedom” to Revolution
One year after the uprising in Iran: strategic reflections on the feminist revolt in Iran, as tensions in the Middle East reach new highs.
Maryam Alaniz
November 14, 2023Women’s Liberation in Revolutionary Russia
The historian Wendy Z. Goldman gave this talk in Madrid and Barcelona on September 12 and 15, presenting her book Women, the State, and Revolution.
Wendy Z. Goldman
October 1, 2023The Communist Women’s International, in English for the First Time
An Interview with historians Daria Dyakovona and Mike Taber about their new book with documents from the Communist Women’s International
Josefina L. Martínez
July 11, 2023A Socialist Take on the Women’s March Convention
In mid August over 1,700 activists attended the Women’s March Convention in Houston Texas. While the participants were driven by rage at the status quo, the non-profit and corporate leaders of the Women’s March offered only a failed strategy of voting for the Democrats and supporting “progressive” capitalists.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
September 16, 2022Femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Spark Widespread Outrage
Earlier this week, two young women were found dead on the Juárez-Porvenir highway in Mexico. Relatives had reported the lesbian couple missing two days earlier. The prosecutor’s office is denying it was a hate crime.
Isabel Vega
January 22, 2022The IMF Is a Weapon Against Women — They Have the Power to Fight Against It
The International Monetary Fund, based in Washington, has a very particular gender perspective. The adjustment plans it negotiates with the governments of debtor countries fall on the backs of working people, and it is women from the poorest households who are most affected. These effects are universal across the globe. This article uses Argentina to make the case.
Andrea D'Atri
November 30, 2021A Patriarchal Stereotype Sustains the Capitalist System: The “Inferior, Submissive Woman”
Gender violence is the direct result of the capitalist system’s patriarchal structure, which serves the exploitation and oppression upon which the system thrives.
Scilla Di Pietro
November 29, 2021Palestinian Women on the Front Line against Israel’s Occupation
"If we women don't resist this occupation, who will?" Amidst a pandemic and repression by the State of Israel, Palestinian women are also at the forefront of resisting colonization.
Emilia Louise
May 27, 2021Police Can’t Stop Gendered Violence — They Cause It
Liberals often argue, in response to calls to defund or abolish the police, that we need more cops to protect women against sexist violence. But police are a source of sexist violence, not a solution. An officer of London's Metropolitan Police killed Sarah Everard — and others attacked people who gathered to remember her.
Enid Brain
March 19, 2021