women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

Russian revolutionary women in 1905

Women fighters in the days of the great October Revolution - Alexandra Kollontai

In this article, written in 1927 (well after the Bolshevik consolidation of power), Alexandra…

International Women's Day - Alexandra Kollontai

First published in 1920, this essay traces the history of international women's day and its importance to working class struggle with particular…

On the History of the Movement of Women Workers in Russia - Alexandra Kollontai

Written in 1919, Alexandra Kollontai's essay looks at the role of working class women in the history of Russian radicalism with particular focus on the 1905 revolution.

Korea: Train attendants strike in longest, most bitter struggle by working women

On March 1, 2006, approximately four hundred women who work as train attendants on the KTX “bullet…

Teresa Claramunt

Claramunt, Teresa, 1862- 1931

One of the founders of the Spanish anarchist movement, an ‘organic intellectual’ and one of its most distinguished women activists.

Al-Jazeera program on Mansoura-España Garments Company struggle

The Everywoman program on Al-Jazeera takes a look at the struggles of Egyptian women working at the…

The great Northampton General Hospital lie in, 1977

A short history of a successful example of creative direct action against healthcare rationing in a British hospital.

Sunvic Controls factory

Scotland: Ten week strike to come to an end

Workers at a South Lanarkshire factory are expected to return to work after spending 10 weeks on strike.

Egypt: Garment workers' sit-in reaches 26th day

Report from Egyptian blogger Hossam el-Hamalawy on a sit in of over 150, mostly female garment workers at the Mansoura-España Garments Company.

International Women's Day in Iran

Iran: International Women's Day events defy repression

A report by the Organisation for Women's Liberation - Iran's (OWL) Maryam Kousha on events across…

Victorine Brocher

Brocher-Rouchy, Victorine, 1838-1921

Biography of French anarchist Victorine Brocher-Rouchy, who fought in the Paris Commune and, in making her escape from the repression, was forced…

Berneri, Giliana, 1919-1998

A short history of the second daughter of Italian anarchist Camillo Berneri who was very active in the Parisian anarchist movement.