Oppressed genders

Oppressed genders

On International Women’s Day, Palestinian women are on the front lines of liberation struggle

March 8, 2021 Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
“To our colleagues, to Palestinian students and those around the world, from the heart of the Zionist prisons. On the occasion of 8th of March, we long for freedom, justice and equality for all women […]
Oppressed genders

International Women’s Day founder Clara Zetkin on fascism, a lesson for today

March 8, 2021 Sharon Black
On many holidays recognizing people’s struggles and their leaders — for example, the civil rights movement and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. — the present-day celebrations are both sweet and sour.  The only reason for […]
Cuba

I live proud to be a woman and to be Cuban

March 7, 2021 Magaly Cabrales
Adriana Pérez Oconor has been a chemical engineer since 1995. She currently works at the Food Industry Research Institute and holds a master’s degree in that specialty. But it is not precisely her professional performance, nor […]
Oppressed genders

Women accounted for all jobs lost in December

January 15, 2021 Sharon Black
The U.S. Labor Department’s December 2020 jobs report, released on Jan. 8, was staggering in terms of lost jobs for women. Bosses cut 140,000 jobs in December. Overall, women accounted for all of those job […]
Oppressed genders

Revolutionary feminism

November 30, 2020 Lizz Toledo
Following is a talk prepared by Lizz Toledo of Mujeres en Lucha/Women in Struggle and the Socialist Unity Party/Partido de Socialismo Unido for the Women’s Assembly at the European Forum, Nov. 24, 2020.  Watch on […]
Cuba

Solidarity with Cuban Women Federation in their 60th Anniversary

August 27, 2020 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Just eight months after the victory of the Cuban Revolution, on Aug. 23, 1960, the Federation of Cuban Women was founded. At that meeting, Fidel Castro remembered the historic contributions of Cuban women, including mothers […]
Cuba

60 aniversario: Una mensaje a Federación de Mujeres Cubanas

August 27, 2020 Berta Joubert-Ceci
Apenas ocho meses después del triunfo de la Revolución Cubana el 23 de agosto de 1960, se fundó la Federación de Mujeres Cubanas. En esa reunión Fidel Castro recordó las contribuciones históricas de las mujeres cubanas, […]
Oppressed genders

Baltimore #SayHerName protest elevates voices of women vets

August 15, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Baltimore — The Peoples Power Assembly and Women In Struggle/Mujeres En Lucha held a rally and march to “Say Her Name” at the Garmatz Federal Courthouse in downtown Baltimore July 30. It coincided with a […]
Fight racism

Janine Africa and Janet Africa

March 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Janine Africa and Janet Africa are two of the surviving MOVE 9 activists who recently won release after decades in prison. They described the hell they went through in Pennsylvania prisons. They and the other […]
Oppressed genders

Julia ‘Pachamama’ Fernández

March 8, 2020 Struggle - La Lucha
Julia “Pachamama” Fernández on the the U.S. coup against Bolivia’s first Indigenous president, Evo Morales of the Movement Toward Socialism (MAS):  “I was just told by a woman in Bolivia that the Juana Azurduy program […]