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, by Internationalist Standpoint
The feminist movement has been growing worldwide over the last few years; it is trying to “reclaim” March 8th from the bourgeois forces that try to turn it into a “holiday”, where men give roses to women and relieve them of household chores for a day.
So, on March 8 this year, millions of (…)
, by DUGGAN Penelope
In March 2023 women’s movements are playing a leading role in many countries around the world. This is neither new nor exceptional, but it should always be emphasized to show how women’s struggles are an integral part of the struggle to change, to revolutionize society, and that without women’s (…)
, by CRAWFORD Vicki
From family to grassroots activists, these are some of the women who shaped MLK’s vision and campaigns.
Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, “Trailblazers and Torchbearers,” dives into the stories of (…)
, by COTTER Bridget
Wollstonecraft was ridiculed in her time for the idea that women should be treated as fully fledged beings.
Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years.
Though considered the mother of first-wave feminism, the 18th-century philosopher long endured her share of trolls (…)
, by THOMPSON Sharon
Lady Rhondda was a suffragette, a business leader and an editor. A statue of her is expected to be revealed in Newport, south Wales, next year.
The design for a statue of a leading suffragette has been unveiled in Newport, south Wales. Margaret Haig Thomas or Lady Rhondda was a lifelong (…)
, by PASHKOFF Susan, RAPP Margaret
The Covid pandemic laid bare the reality that women do hold up more than half the sky. A long read by Susan Pashkoff and Margaret Rapp.
The Covid pandemic laid bare the reality that women do hold up more than half the sky. What became evident is that traditional women’s labour, derided as (…)
, by Fourth International
Motion adopted by the International Commitee of the Fourth International.
Copyright Dominique Botte. Fourth International
Each year, International Women’s Day is an important moment in giving visibility to feminist struggles against patriarchal capitalism, in its attempt to engender new ways (…)
, by AMARASURIYA Harini
Over the past several years, I have met and interviewed a number of political activists, both male and female, trying to understand how and why they came to do what they do, what made them often go against the grain, and take unpopular positions, sometimes at considerable personal risk and (…)
, by PESSOA Bianca , TEMÜRTÜRKAN Yildiz
Capire talked to Yildiz Temürtürkan, international coordinator of the World March of Women, about the movement’s history and challenges
The World March of Women is a feminist, internationalist, anticapitalist, and anticolonial movement organized from local coordinations in 51 countries and (…)
, by PASHKOFF Susan
The purpose of this piece to highlight the first wave of feminism and to provide some historical context to the creation of International Working Women’s Day in the the period of the first and second decades of the 20th century. While International Women’s Day is still celebrated around the (…)
, by JAYAWARDENA Kumari
For twenty-five years, Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World has been an essential primer on the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century history of women’s movements in Asia and the Middle East. Kumari Jayawardena presents feminism as it originated in the Third World, erupting from the (…)
, by Feminist Movements
The following statement has been endorsed by nearly 1160 individuals and women’s networks and organizations globally, from more than 100 countries, to demand States to adopt a feminist policy to address the extraordinary challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in a manner that is consistent (…)
, by DUGGAN Penelope
The new rise of the women’s movement in recent years has been propelled largely by the issue of violence. Since the first manifesto of Ni Una Menos mobilized on the issue of abortion and the first feminist women’s strikes took place.
These were followed by demonstrations on the occasion of (…)
, by Movements (Women)
Dear sister comrades from all over the world,
The undersigned collectives met to add their voices to the multiple calls coming from working class, indigenous, Black and peasant women, as well as students, lesbians, trans and travestis to mobilize for action and revolt on March 8th and 9th. We (…)
, par WMW
We have few days left until March 8, when the World March of Women will be in the streets on the International Day of Women’s Struggle and will launch our 5th International Action. We resist to live, we march to transform ! This is our slogan and with it we will take up demonstrations of our (…)
20 years after the launch of the World March of Women, we call on women in movements from around the world to join our 5th International Action, from March 8 to October 17, 2020.
Anchored in our feminist experience of struggle and rebellion, we confront authoritarian and reactionary (…)
, by FRASER Nancy, MALATESTA Olimpia
Women workers, people of color, and white men in the Rust Belt may not see each other as natural allies. But there is a path to uniting the social majority — so long as we recognize our common enemy in capitalism.
In the fight for equality, not all feminisms are just the same. Just as the (…)
, by ARRUZZA Cinzia
The third transnational feminist strike of March 8, 2019 has hopefully dispelled any doubts about the fact that we are now in the middle of a new historic feminist wave wave. With six million people on strike in Spain, general strikes or work stoppages called by labor organizations in Italy, (…)
, by SEGAL Lynne
Who’s a feminist?
It is the best of times and it is the worst of times to declare oneself a feminist today. Presentations of that creature have been shape shifting for decades, though right now she suddenly seems more popular than ever, sometimes appearing as a celebrated media figure: her (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
The International Women’s Strike is part of a transnational feminist wave, and women around the globe are fighting against reactionary political forces and standing up for the most oppressed and exploited.
For the third consecutive year the new transnational feminist wave has called for a day (…)
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