Sisters Uncut Occupy London’s Holloway Prison Sisters Uncut, a UK-based feminist group, held a week-long occupation of north London’s Holloway Prison in late May in response to conservative…
Violence in the women’s suffrage movement A brief account of some of the many violent incidents in the UK women’s fight for the right to vote in the early 20th century, by Steven Johns.
Voting as Counter-Revolution – how the politicians who gave us the vote saw things 100 years ago A hundred years ago, the British ruling class decided to extend the vote to women…
Chiefly a Dialogue. Concerning Some Difficulties of a Dunce. Chiefly a Dialogue. Concerning Some Difficulties of a Dunce. by Louisa Sarah Bevington, published 1895. Copy from Victorian Women Writers Project.
Little girls An account written in 1895 by Zo d'Axa of the 1891 trial of two teenage anarchist girls, Maria Roda, 15, and Ernesta Quartirola, accused of encouraging attacks on the police during an anarchist demonstration.
The New York City rent strike, 1907-8 A short account of the Lower East Side rent strike in New York City in late 1907 to early 1908.
Andrea, Virgilia d', 1890-1933 A short biography of Virgilia d'Andrei, an Italian anarchist teacher, anti-fascist and poet.
Reflections on the way to the gallows A short prison diary kept by Japanese anarchist feminist Kanno Sugako, prior to her execution on 25 January 1911 for her part in a plot to…
House to Goddess of the House: Gender, Class and Silk in 19th Century Mount Lebanon An essay on the development of capitalism in Lebanon and the effects it had upon gender roles…
Virino de la Pariza Komuno: A.I. Molok Informoj pri la virinoj en la Pariza Komuno. Tradukis Ninelina