Female consciousness and collective action in Barcelona - Temma Kaplan

Barcelona women protest at the cost of essentials, 1918

Barcelona women protest at the cost of essentials, 1918

Article on women's protests in Spain between 1910 and 1918, which had many similarities to those that sparked the French and Russian Revolutions.

(Trigger warning as this article contains mention of sexual violence)

Barcelona Women's Protests.pdf (2.93 MB)

Finally got round to reading this article now, it's brilliant! Highly recommended

Women in the Russian revolution.

Women and communal strikes in the crisis of 1917-1922 - Temma Kaplan

An article on women's pivotal role in Russia, Italy, Spain and Mexico during the revolutionary wave…

Organizing women: first steps - Martha A. Ackelsberg

An excerpt from Martha A. Ackelsberg's Free Women of Spain: anarchism and the struggle for the emancipation of women about women's struggle for…

1951: Barcelona general strike

A brief description of social conditions in post-Civil War Spain followed by an account of the Barcelona general strike of 1951. The events in…

Women on strike in Reykjavik, 1975

The Iceland women’s strike, 1975

A short history of the strike, or day off, by 90% of women in Iceland for equality with men on 24 October, 1975, written by Steven Johns.