Room maids strike back at a Paris hotel
Submitted by NancyPasReagan on Feb 24 2020 19:46
Nancy Pas Reagan on the struggle of Parisien cleaners who have been on strike since July 2019.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
Submitted by Working Class H... on Jan 25 2020 21:23
The memoirs of Japanese anarchist and anti-colonial activist Fumiko Kaneko, written while she was in prison, where she died most likely by suicide in 1926.
The history of a photo - and a video. Anti-fascism's strength and limits in facing rape culture. PART 1
An analysis of how rape culture permeates yesterday and today's right-wing narrative, and of how anti-fascism sometimes failed to face it, with violent consequences. Part 1 of an article by the Nicoletta Bourbaki collective, published on Wu Ming's website.
A Class Perspective on the 'Women Question'
Submitted by Internationalis... on Apr 24 2019 14:42
We cannot talk about proletarian and communist revolution if it does not express both the emancipation of the proletariat from class exploitation, and, on the same basis, the emancipation of women from gender oppression.
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.
