The limitations of ‘equality’ as class strategy/Book review: Trico - A victory to remember
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Apr 11 2019 18:02
Trico - A victory to remember, The 1976 equal pay strike at Trico Folberth, Brentford, by Sally Grovers and Vernon Merritt. Great book on an important women-led strike in 1976. We summarise the main events and then share some thoughts on struggles for 'equal pay'.
E20: The Exotic Dancers Union
Podcast episode about the workers at the Lusty Lady strip club in San Francisco who in 1997 were the first women who managed to unionise a strip joint in the United States, and who later took it over and ran it as a workers’ co-operative.
The Origins and Capture of International Working Women's Day
Submitted by Internationalis... on Mar 8 2019 13:32
We know that the bourgeois state can provide us no genuine or lasting protections and we know that women will never be safe for as long as class society and the social construct of gender exists.
Women and the Asian Youth Movements
Submitted by Ed on Feb 13 2019 17:45
Anandi Ramamurthy analyses the involvement of women within the Asian Youth Movements and how the groups engaged (or didn't) with issues of gender, sexism and women's liberation both within the organisation as well as in their activism.
Strikers in Saris - The Grunwick Strike
In 1976 South Asian women workers who had made Britain their home, led a strike against poor working conditions in a British factory. Lakshmi Patel was one of the South Asian women who picketed the Grunwick film-processing factory in north London for two years
E16: Women in the early IWW
Podcast about the early history of women in the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union in the United States, in conversation with Heather Mayer, author of Beyond the Rebel Girl: Women and the IWW in the Pacific Northwest, 1905-1924.
E13: Women in the miners’ strike
Episode about the crucial role played by women in the great miners strike in Britain, 1984-5, in conversation with Heather Wood, chair of the Easington women’s strike support group.
E11: The GI resistance in Vietnam, part 2
Concluding part of our two-part episode on the GI resistance to the Vietnam war, in conversation with Jerry Lembcke, a Vietnam army veteran, now sociologist and author.
Women and the union - A factory in west-London
Submitted by AngryWorkersWorld on Nov 19 2018 14:48
We wrote this report about experiences of women inside trade unions for our fellow workers of the IWW New Syndicalist:
https://newsyndicalist.org/2018/11/19/tmm3-women-the-factory-and-the-uni...
性别的逻辑——领域的分离与抛弃的过程
Submitted by sjzc on Sep 26 2018 08:04
在性别去自然化、再生产劳动商品化的时代，借用马克思的价值理论重新思考21世纪的资本主义为何仍然需要将人类“深深印刻着这种或那种性别”。这篇马克思主义女权理论的重要作品终于翻译成中文。
