women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

The women's question: A case study of the Russian Revolution

A libertarian socialist analysis of Women's roles in the Russian Revolution, critiquing Lenin and…

Italy: austerity is violence on the bodies of women

In Rome, activist women responded to the #occupypatriarchy call ut initiated by the Occupy Wall Street Movement. The group, composed of students,…

Response to: Prostitution is not compatible with anarchism

This is a response to the authors of the leaflet distributed at the "Sex work and Anarchism"…

Protesters at Occupy Glasgow.

Open letter from Glasgow Women's Activist Forum to Occupy Glasgow

Below is an open letter from Glasgow Women's Activist Forum to Occupy Glasgow. If your organisation…

SORWUC [the Service, Office and Retail Workers' Union of Canada] - Frances Rooney

A 1978 article on SORWUC, a union formed with the intent to organize in industries traditionally…

Political work with women and as women in the present conditions: Interview with Silvia Federici

An interview with Italian Marxist feminist, Silvia Federici which centers around…

Women, the State, and the Family

An essay by E. Moraletat examining the feminist movement in the context of women's relationship with the State and the bourgeois family.

Mujeres Libres

“Separate and equal”?: Mujeres Libres and anarchist strategy for women's emancipation

A history of the Mujeres Libres, a women's anarchist organisation founded in Spain, May 1936, which…

Swept under the rug and left for dead; How, according to the boss, swearing is worse than harassment

An account of an incident of sexual harassment in the workplace, the inadequate…

Illustration of a witch burning

Caliban and the witch - Silvia Federici

Caliban and the Witch is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages to the…

Women march to Versailles during the French Revolution.

Is revolution back on the agenda? - Mark Kosman

Every attempt to go beyond capitalism has ended in failure. But are capitalism's present problems putting anti-capitalist revolution back on the…

Samsung workers in Mexico on hunger strike - Solidarity needed

Four female workers, unfairly fired and victims of workplace abuse, have caged themselves and sewn…