women
Articles about women and women's struggles against patriarchy and capital.
Women's Suffrage
WE BOAST of the age of advancement, of science, and progress. Is it not strange, then, that we still believe in fetich worship? True, our fetiches have different form and substance, yet in their power over the human mind they are still as disastrous as were those of old.
The Traffic in Women
OUR REFORMERS have suddenly made a great discovery--the white slave traffic. The papers are full of these "unheard-of conditions," and lawmakers are already planning a new set of laws to check the horror.
SCUM Manifesto
by Valerie Solanas
Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.
The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community
An influential pamphlet that used a feminist reading of Marx to challenge Left orthodoxy on the role of women, their labour and their struggles.
Women's Subversive Individualism in Barcelona during the 1930s
WOMEN'S SUBVERSIVE INDIVIDUALISM IN BARCELONA DURING THE 1930s
MICHAEL SEIDMAN
International Review Of Social History XXXVII (1992)
Pesotta, Rose, 1896-1965
A short biography of Ukrainian-born Jewish anarchist and garment worker labour organiser Rose Pesotta.
Rose Pesotta
Born Rakhel Peisoty, 1896 - Ukraine, died 1965 - US
Few female Jewish immigrants to the U.S. have led lives as dynamic and eventful as Rose Pesotta.
Sirakova, Mariola, 1904-1925
Biographical information about Bulgarian student, actress and anarchist revolutionary Mariola Sirakova.
Born 1904 - Kilifarevo, Bulgaria, died 2 June 1925 - Belovo, Bulgaria.
Born in Kilifarevo, Bulgaria in 1904, the student-actress Mariola Sirakova belonged to a well-off family. She revolted from an early age against her social background and joined the anarchist movement at a young age.
Zazzi, Maria, 1904-1993
A short biography of life-long Italian anarchist militant Maria Zazzi.
Maria Zazzi
Born 10 June 1904, Coli, Italy, died 5 January 1993, Bologna, Italy
Marx, Jenny - obituary by Frederick Engels
Engels' biography and obituary of Jenny Marx, Karl Marx's eldest daughter.
Jenny Longuet, Nee Marx
by Frederick Engels
Jenny, the eldest daughter of Karl Marx, died at Argenteuil near Paris on January 11. About eight years ago she married Charles Longuet a former member of the Paris Commune and at present co-editor of the Justice.
The Woman Question
Paul Lafargue's
THE WOMAN QUESTION
Written: ca. 1900 Source: The Right To Be Lazy and Other Studies Translated: Charles Kerr First Published: Charles Kerr and Co., Co-operative, 1883 Online Version: Lafargue Internet Archive (marxists.org) 2000 Transcription/Markup: Sally Ryan
