women

Content about women, gender, feminism and women's struggles.

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Peruvian miners on strike, 2008

Workers' control in Latin America, 1930-1979 - Jonathan C Brown

A series of essays investigating the everyday acts through which Latin American workers attempted to…

Members of Mujeres Libres

Sisterly solidarity - Pepita Carpena

Account by Pepita Carpena of the Spanish anarchist Mujeres Libres (Free Women) on how comrades helped her flee Spain after the victory of Franco…

Sex workers demonstrate in India, 2012

Let’s not abolish sex work. Let’s abolish all work - Laurie Penny

To describe sex work as “a job like any other job” is only a positive reframing if you consider a …

Ida Pilat Isca: Translator-Writer-Activist-Friend

A short 1981 pamphlet written and compiled by long time Libertarian Book Club (LBC) Member Valerio Isca about his loving comrade Ida Pilat Isca.

Some of the school strikers, photographed in 1953

The Prince Edward County school strike, 1951

A short history of a school children's strike against against racist and substandard education at Robert Russa Moton High School in Prince Edward…

Supporters of the Industrial Workers of the World parade in Hibbing, Minn. 1916

Solidarity forever: an oral history of the IWW - Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas and Deborah Shaffer

A fantastic oral history of the revolutionary Industrial Workers of the World union…

Sylvia Pankhurst demonstrating against British policy in India, 1932

Sylvia Pankhurst reader

An extensive compilation of the political writings of left communist Sylvia Pankhurst on class, women, communism and fascism.

Fourth of July fireworks

A people's history of the fourth of July

A roundup of key events in United States working class history which have also taken place on 4 July, beyond 1776.

Annie Besant with the strike committee

The matchgirls strike, 1888 - John Simkin

A short account of the successful strike in 1888 by thousands of unorganised female workers at the Bryant & May match factory in London.

The Combahee River raid, 1863 - Earl Conrad

A short account of the Combahee River raid during the American Civil War, which was led by former slave and underground railroad activist Harriet…

Gay oppression: a radical analysis - The Red Butterfly

A Marxist analysis of discrimination experienced by LGB people, published by a section of the Gay…

Undercover police within the social movements

A brief look at the infiltration into political groups by the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS), an undercover unit of the British police's…