women

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

Lucy Parsons.

Lucy Parsons.

What is a workplace? Race, workplace struggle, and the IWW

Factory committees, shop floors, collective bargaining, contracts. What do those words mean to you?…

Marie Pitt

Marie E.J. Pitt, 1869-1948

A short biography of Australian radical poet, feminist and ecologist Marie EJ Pitt, written by PD Gardner. We reproduce the article in its…

Maria Occhipinti

No to the draft! Maria Occhipinti and the Ragusa revolt of January 1945

A short account by Meno Occhipinti of the Ragusa revolt, and the role Maria Occhipinti played in it.

Elisabeth Dmitrieff

She stood on the barricades - Robyn Karina

A brief account of Elisabeth Dmitrieff, an eager revolutionary from Russia, and her journey in organising thousands of working class women during…

Numbo, 1877

Tracing Louise Michel in the Pacific

An extremely well-researched text by Paul Mason exploring exiled Paris Communard Louise Michel's time imprisoned on the French colony of New…

On leaving Russia

Russian Jewish anarchist Mollie Steimer, who was deported to Russia, on her being deported from Russia by the Bolsheviks for condemning their persecution of revolutionary workers.

Sabotage in The Office

Sabotage in the American workplace: anecdotes of dissatisfaction, mischief and revenge

A truly fantastic study of everyday employee resistance at work. First person accounts of sabotage,…

Squat houses, Broughton Road, Hackney, 1983

Sisterhood and Squatting in the 1970s: Feminism, Housing and Urban Change in Hackney

A detailed look at squatting in 1970s Hackney, East London. Using oral history to recall how women…

Salvadora Carmen Medina Onrubia

Medina Onrubia de Botana, Salvadora Carmen, 1894-1972

A short biography of Argentinian feminist anarchist poet and writer Salvadora Carmen Medina Onrubia…

Nigel Buildings tenements rent strike 1930s Peckham, London

A successful rent strike in 1930s Peckham

The story of a successful rent strike in Peckham, south east London, during the 1930s.

Meditation on domestic violence intervention: a personal narrative

A deeply personal account of experiencing and confronting abuse within a family, by Sara Rahnoma-Galindo. Trigger warning for domestic and sexual violence.

The logic of gender: on the separation of spheres and the process of abjection

Marxist-feminists have employed a number of binary oppositions: productive/reproductive, paid/unpaid and public/private. We interrogate these categories and propose new ones. Starting from the specificities of the production and reproduction of labour-power, we define gender as the anchoring of individuals into two separate spheres of social reproduction. We trace the development of these spheres through the history…