Women and oppressed genders

Trump administration takes war on women to the U.N.

President Donald Trump took his war on the rights of women and gender-nonconforming people to the U.N. the week of…

May 9, 2019

Focus on Family protest says ‘New York is a pro-choice town!’

Times Square rang with chants for reproductive rights on May 4: “Not the church, not the state, women will decide…

May 9, 2019

Lucy Gonzales Parsons: ‘more dangerous than 1,000 rioters’

Reprinted from April 30, 2017 at workers.org It is fitting to honor the fighting spirit of Lucy Gonzales Parsons on…

April 25, 2019

States intensify attacks on reproductive rights

It’s war. Patriarchal diehards in state legislatures across the country are bound and determined to criminalize what should be a…

April 16, 2019

Advancing liberation for nine decades, Vietnam Women’s Union

Women organizers of economic and political struggles in New York exchanged experiences with their sisters from the Vietnam Women’s Union…

April 9, 2019

Georgia, #1 in maternal deaths, passes country’s most restrictive abortion law

The Georgia legislature succeeded in passing the most restrictive law governing access to abortion in the country on March 29,…

April 4, 2019

Strikes, mass protests mark global International Women’s Day

International Working Women's Day was founded in 1910 at an International Women's Socialist Conference in Copenhagen to strengthen global solidarity…

March 27, 2019

Boston: ‘Resistance, Remembrance and Revolution’

"Uphold the legacy of women's resistance! Women and gender-oppressed peoples are in the forefront of global fightback!" was the call…

March 27, 2019

Elizabeth Jennings — a New York City pioneer

More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955,…

March 21, 2019

The 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire and garment workers today

More than a century ago, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City was a notoriously anti-union company and the…

March 21, 2019