women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

‘Feminism is a dirty word’. What would Marx and Engels think today? - Camilla Power

This article takes ‘dinosaur marxists’ to task for refusing to treat rape as a political issue. The…

SWP 'expulsions' for discussing rape - not for the first time!

For the Socialist Workers’ Party, rape is now a big issue. Under very different circumstances – when…

Women in the cleaning sector and hotel-restaurant industry: syndicalist conversations

The purpose of these interviews is to provide an insight into the situation and the struggles of…

Betrayal - a critical analysis of rape culture in anarchist subcultures

An important zine on rape culture in the anarchist milieu and what tends to happen during…

Assata: An autobiography - Assata Shakur

PDF e-book of the autobiography of black revolutionary, Assata Shakur. We do not agree with all of her politics but reproduce this text for…

The break-up of the WRP: from the horse’s mouth - Simon Pirani

An account by one of its former activists of the breakup of the UK Trotskyist group Workers…

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Anthropology: Reclaiming the dragon (what was primitive communism?) - Lionel Sims

Article arguing that class society and patriarchy only arose ten to twenty thousand years ago. For…

Women’s popular movement and the Shining Path: The contradictions of patriarchal women's emancipation

Please enjoy this original piece I recently wrote, about women's liberation and the…

The Raven #21: Feminism, anarchism, women

21st issue of The Raven: anarchist quarterly dated January-March 1993 on anarchism, feminism and women. Some of these articles, like the one by…

Arab women - Magida Salman

Is it a lapse into impressionism to 'lend great importance to the weight of Islam' in considering the roots of the oppression of Arab women?…

Changes in Palestinian society - Ehud Ein Gil and Aryeh Finkelstein

A look at the changes in Palestinian society since the beginning of zionist expansion in the region…

Patriarchy, domestic mode of production, gender, and class - Christine Delphy

Patriarchy, domestic mode of production, gender, and class - Christine Delphy

Christine Delphy proposes that there is a parallel mode of production - domestic production -…