women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Frames from Nightcleaners

Jolting memory: Nightcleaners recalled - Sheila Rowbotham

Sheila Rowbotham recalls both the campaigns to organise female night cleaners in London from 1970,…

Is intersectionality just another form of identity politics? - Feminist Fightback

Feminist Fightback take a class-based look at intersectionality and identity politics.

On the Human Being, Male and Female

Letter from Joseph Déjacque to Pierre Proudhon criticism him for his misogyny and reactionary social views.

Triumphant leaders of Solidarity at Nowy Targ, October 19, 1981. Anna Walentynow

Invisible labour and political participation: Women in the Solidarność movement and in today's politics in Poland

A feminist critique by Ewa Majewska of the old Solidarność and today's Polish…

Libertad Rodenas

Rodenas, Libertad (1893-1970)

A short biography of Libertad Rodenas, noted Spanish anarchist and member of Mujeres Libres.

Transnational feminism's radical past: Lessons from Italian immigrant women anarchists in industrializing America

An article by Jennifer Guglielmo on the activism of Italian immigrant anarchist…

A creepy professor meme

Against students - Sara Ahmed

Student activism - especially feminist and anti-racist activism - is conflated with neoliberalism and managerialism in order to be dismissed out…

A colorful picture of Kurds in a demonstration

Kurdish Autonomy Between Dream and Reality

In this interview, Joost Jongerden reflects on the Rojava revolution, Öcalan’s leadership role, the position of women in the Kurdish struggle and…

Pictured: some members of the Durruti column

Inglès, Pepita (1910-1937)

A short biography of Spanish anarchist Pepita Inglès, who fought and died with the Durruti Column.

Bahar Mustafa - Golsmiths Student's Union Welfare & Diversity Officer

Persecution and threats against student activist escalate

A London student union officer has received death threats in a month-long campaign of harassment,…

The Headscarf Revolutionaries marching to confront the bosses, Hull, 1968

The headscarf revolutionaries - DD Johnston

D.D. Johnston reviews Brian Lavery’s The Headscarf Revolutionaries, an account of a spontaneous campaign by fishermen’s wives in Hull, which…

Louise Michel in her military uniform

Louise Michel - Edith Thomas

Well researched, thorough and detailed biography of legendary Paris communard, anarchist and French national hero of the late 19th century,…