women
Articles about women and women's struggles against patriarchy and capital.
Building workers on strike in Trinidad
Contract workers hired for the construction of the continuous catalytic reactor (CCR) and the alti-acid plants at Petrotrin, Pointe-a-Pierre, yesterday downed tools for the second time in three days.
On Saturday, the workers at the CCR plant walked off the site in protest against what they described as unfair treatment of women employees by management.
Korean three-year struggle against precariousness
Female precarious workers at Kiryung Electronics Satellite Radio plant in Seoul enter their 1,100th day of struggle.
Female precarious workers for the Korean firm Kiryung electronics today enter their 1,100th day of action in demand of direct employment.
Federn, Marietta aka Etta 1883- 1951
A short biography of Etta Federn, German litterateur, anarchist and educationalist
Etta Federn was born in 1883 in Vienna, the youngest daughter of an assimilated Jewish family. She was the daughter of the suffragette Ernestine Federn and the doctor Salomon Federn and the sister of Paul, who became an analyst, Karl, who became a lawyer and writer, and Walter who became a journalist. She had an education on an equal footing with her brothers.
Swazi textile workers to resume strike
16,000 Swazi textile workers look set to resume strike action this Wednesday if their demands for better pay and benefits are ignored.
Workers agreed to give STEA and the government 48 hours before resuming the strike action. SMAWU President Alex Fakudze explained that workers suspended the strike last week hoping that STEA would be ready to negotiate a better deal, but failed to do so. The meeting held at Salesian sports ground was attended by about five hundred textile workers, mostly women.
Workers strike and clash with police in Swaziland
The last week of textile workers' strikes has seen Swaziland's most intense wave of labour militancy in a decade.
Over 16,000, mostly female, workers have been on strike since March 3rd with workers participating in marches confronting police using clubs and teargas. At least a dozen have been reported injured. 93 percent voted for strike action, while six percent voted against and one abstained.
Vera Drake, dir. Mike Leigh, 2004. Film review – Tom Jennings
Vera Drake vividly portrays the paradoxes of backstreet abortion without passing judgement.
Dilemmas of a Bleeding Heart
Documentary representations of British and European Muslim women. Essay review
Follow-up to ‘Same Difference’ examines images of Muslims in photography and television
Breaking Cover
In The Cut - review
Tom Jennings’ review of Jane Campion's 2003 postfeminist erotic thriller
A Cut Above?
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings (2004). Music review – Tom Jennings
Tom Jennings’ essay on contemporary urban music, gender and class.
Dancehall Dreams by Tom Jennings
Michaelis, Margaret born Margaret Gross
A short biography of modernist photographer and anarchist Margaret Michaelis 1902-1985.
Margaret Michaelis’s prowess as a photographer has been hidden away until recently. Recent exhibitions in Canberra, Australia in 1988 and 2005 and in Valencia, Spain in 2005 have begun to dispel this cloud of obscurity.
