women
Articles about women and women's struggles against patriarchy and capital.
Women in the Spanish revolution - Solidarity
Liz Willis writes on the conditions and role of women in and around the Spanish Civil War and revolution of 1936-1939.
Solidarity Pamphlet #48
Introduction
The women are marching - European Counter Network
Report on a demonstration in London on International Day to End Violence Against Women, 1992.
November 25th is the International Day to End Violence Against Women. In Britain, on Saturday 28th, women marched to Trafalgar Square in London to protest against the global attacks on women's rights and bodies. The numbers started at around 2000 but swelled to 4000 as women joined the march.
Constructive policy versus destructive war - Marie Louise Berneri
These two excerpts appeared originally in the anarchist paper War Commentary, and have been republished in the posthumous collection of Berneri's articles, Neither East Nor West (Freedom Press, 1952) and more recently in Robert Graham's Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas Vol. 2 (Black Rose Books, 2009). Berneri puts forth a scathing criticism of the hypocrisy of "left wing" parliamentary politics and of the capitalist war machine.
A CONSTRUCTIVE POLICY
We are often accused of lacking a constructive policy. People grant that we have made a valuable analysis of the present situation, and that “our paper has a real value in pricking complacency and stimulating thought.” But we are asked to put forward “practical” solutions for the struggle against fascism and capitalism.
Roda, Maria 1877-19???
A short biography of Maria Roda, a fierce champion of women's liberation and anarchism, active in Italy, France and the United States.
“Who knows poverty more than woman?” Maria Roda
Buela, Juana Rouco 1889-1969
A short biography of Juana Rouco Buela, formidable fighter for women's liberation and anarchism
“At the age of eighteen, the police considered me to be an element dangerous for the tranquillity of capitalism and the State”.
Look to the future - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the limitations of the increased suffrage of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
Votes for women. Sex disability not removed
Women members of parliament - Sylvia Pankhurst
Sylvia Pankhurst argues that the election of women to parliament won't overcome the bankruptcy of parliamentary politics.
The return of eight women to Parliament marks an advance in public opinion. People have realised at last that women are persons with all the human attributes, not merely some of them and that women have an equal right with men to take part in making the social conditions under which they live.
Bolten, Virginia 1870-1960? aka “La Luisa Michel Rosarino” (The Louise Michel of Rosario)
A short biography of Virginia Bolten, fearless fighter for anarchism and women's liberation
Virginia Bolten was the daughter of a German street vendor. She was born in Uruguay, either in San Luis, according to some, or in San Juan, according to the researcher Placido Grela. Rosario was known as the “Barcelona of Argentina” at this point in time because of its concentration of industries, the radical ferment there and the political influence it had over the rest of the country.
Prison activist's death sparks uprising in women's prison of Thebe, Greece
The second uprising in the Greek prisons in only two days was sparked by the death of Katerina Goulioni, inmate activist against vaginal inspection in jail. Clashes have erupted outside the prison between riot police and solidarity protesters. Koridalos Athens prisons also in turmoil.
The death of Katerina Goulioni, a female prison activist known for her struggle against vaginal inspection of inmates sparked a violent uprising in the Women's Prison of Thebes on Sunday 22/3. Inmates have refused to return to their cells, and are setting fires and smashing the jail premises, while a protest march in solidarity to Goulioni clashed with riot police forces outside the prison.
Protests in Belfast in support of women's right to choose
The Alliance for Choice in Northern Ireland is heading up a campaign for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. On Wednesday 22nd there will be a vote on an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Westminster to extend the Act to NI - 41 years after its introduction in the rest of the UK.
Organise!, political activists, and pro-choice campaigners will be staging a series or protests in the next week in the run up to the Westminster vote on the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to NI.
