women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Women, the unions and work, or… what is not to be done - Selma James

Excellent critique of the structural position of unions, work, and unwaged labour from a feminist…

World War I and the demise of British feminism - Susan Kingsley Kent

How war stifled British feminism. Up until 1914, the suffrage campaign became a mass movement…

Strikes against Stalin in 1930s Russia - Jeffrey Rossman

A detailed account and analysis of the Teikovo cotton workers' strike of April 1932, examining class…

Burnsall strike: with friends like these, who needs racists?

Subversion criticise the Burnsall strike support group for making the dispute into a racial issue as opposed to a class issue. The article is an example of 'anti-racism' and 'anti-nationalism' turning into a refusal to discuss racial divisions within the working class at all, which we strongly disagree with but reproduce for reference. See our archive on the Burnsall strike.

Sorgue sitting on right, Broutchoux next to her

Cauvin,( nee Durand de Gros) Antoinette aka Madame Sorgue 1864-1924

A short biography of the French syndicalist orator Madame Sorgue who was active throughout Western…

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…

Comrades, but women - Theorie Communiste

TC on the contradictions between class struggle and gender abolition.

Gender-class-dynamic - Theorie Communiste

Theorie Communiste on the relationship between class and gender

The moral economy reviewed - E. P. Thompson

The follow-up article to E. P. Thompson's classic 'The moral economy of the English crowd in the 18th century' from the book Customs in common.

"You've Struck a Rock." Gender and Transformation in the US and South Africa - M. Bahati Kuumba

An article on women's crucial role in the US Civil Rights Movement and in the…

Gender distinction, programmatism and communisation - Roland Simon

A discussion of gender distinction within capitalism by Roland Simon of Theorie Communiste.

Agnes Henry

Henry, Agnes 1850-1915

A short biography of Agnes Henry, active in the British anarchist movement in the 1880s-1890s