women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Constructive policy versus destructive war - Marie Louise Berneri

These two excerpts appeared originally in the anarchist paper War Commentary, and have been…

Fanya Baron

Baron, Fanya aka Fanny Grefenson, aka Anisimovna aka Fanny Baron 1887-1921

A short biography of Fanya Baron, an idealistic young anarchist who suffered the brutality of both…

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Roda, Maria 1877-1958

A short biography of Maria Roda, a fierce champion of women's liberation and anarchism, active in Italy, France and the United States.

Juana Rouco Buela

Buela, Juana Rouco 1889-1969

A short biography of Juana Rouco Buela, formidable fighter for women's liberation and anarchism

Look to the future - Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst discusses the limitations of the increased suffrage of the Representation of the People Act 1918.

Women members of parliament - Sylvia Pankhurst

Sylvia Pankhurst argues that the election of women to parliament won't overcome the bankruptcy of parliamentary politics.

Virginia Bolten

Bolten, Virginia 1870-1960?

A short biography of Virginia Bolten, aka the Louise Michel of Rosario, fearless fighter for anarchism and women's liberation

Olga Taratuta

Taratuta, Olga Ilyinichna 1876-1938 (real name Elka Golda Elievna Ruvinskaia)

A short biography of Olga Taratuta the “grandmother” of the Russian anarchist movement and a founder…

Katerina Goulioni

Prison activist's death sparks uprising in women's prison of Thebes, Greece

The second uprising in the Greek prisons in only two days was sparked by the death of Katerina…

Protests in Belfast in support of women's right to choose

The Alliance for Choice in Northern Ireland is heading up a campaign for the extension of the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland. On Wednesday 22nd there will be a vote on an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill in Westminster to extend the Act to NI - 41 years after its introduction in the rest of the UK.

Building workers on strike in Trinidad

Contract workers hired for the construction of the continuous catalytic reactor (CCR) and the alti-acid plants at Petrotrin, Pointe-a-Pierre, yesterday downed tools for the second time in three days.

Korean three-year struggle against precariousness

Female precarious workers at Kiryung Electronics Satellite Radio plant in Seoul enter their 1,100th day of struggle.