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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 the (...)
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 (...)
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 youth (...)
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, (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Born as a response to Trump’s aid cuts, SheDecides has blossomed into a vast movement, with women across the globe joining its rallying cry
On Monday 23 January 2017, three days after he was inaugurated into the White House, Donald Trump signed an executive orderthat put the lives of millions (...)
“We strike to change everything,” from the March 8th feminist strike in Spain
On October 23, thousands of Glasgow cleaning workers kicked off the union demonstration for equal pay organized by Public Services International, Unison, and GMB with a minute’s silence, in memory of the women workers (...)
Thousands of Google employees throughout the United States and around the world walked off their jobs yesterday, Nov. 1, “to protest sexual harassment, misconduct, lack of transparency, and a workplace that doesn’t work for everyone.” Beginning in Singapore and working its way around the globe the (...)
Women’s stories of abuse have hardly made a mark on institutions like the tech giant. If talking alone doesn’t work, action will do.
It started in Tokyo. On Thursday, Google employees around the world stopped work at 11am local time, as part of a planned protest against the tech giant’s handling (...)
Feminists are celebrating a new generation of women who fearlessly share their stories of sexual violence on social media and other digital platforms, confronting established limits on talking about rape.
But as past analyses conclude, not all forms of speaking out challenge the gendered power (...)
On 14 June, the women of Argentina made history : in a very narrow vote (129 in favour, 125 against), and a denouement that left the public on tenterhooks until the very end, the Congress of Deputies approved a bill to decriminalise abortion, processed, to everyone’s surprise, by the country’s (...)
The cycle of women’s mass mobilizations opened in recent years has kept its dynamic and organized once again an international women’s strike this 8 March in more than fifty countries from Argentina, to Italy, from France to the United States, from Brazil to Britain from Iceland to Iran, as well (...)
Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We’re now into the second year of the Trump administration, and the last year has been filled with ups and downs, important victories, successful holding campaigns, and painful defeats. We’ve learned a lot, but there is always more to learn, more to be done. (...)
“Women are the owners of the factories of humanity: We just need to raise awareness to take over our own power,” says feminist labor organizer, activist, and professor Cecilia Palmeiro.
You Know Who Rules? is Broadly’s December interview series highlighting women and non-binary people who (...)
Donors and CSO leaders encourage the depoliticisation and marginalisation of women’s political struggles. Donor pressures reshape the feminist movement as a social work project of service delivery to the most vulnerable.
A global backlash against women’s rights is on the rise. Women’s movements (...)
March’s Women’s Strike was an electric first step towards forging a new feminist movement.
On March 8, International Women’s Day, formerly known as International Working Women’s Day, there was a global strike in the name of feminism. The combination of the strike and an explicitly left feminist (...)
After the bigger and more widespread mobilizations around an internationally coordinated call this 8 March, International Women’s Day, than have been seen for many years, Penelope Duggan from International Viewpoint spoke to Cinzia Arruzza, one of the organizers of the US Women’s Strike and a (...)
Women around the world hold first mass International Women’s Strike, billed ‘A Day Without Women’, in protest against pay gaps and violence.
Women closed schools, occupied farms, descended on parliaments and went on strike in countries across the globe in one of the most highly charged and (...)
The International Women’s Strike (IWS) is a grassroots movement established by women from different parts of the world. The inspiration came from Poland and it was created in recent weeks of autumn 2016 as a response to the current social, legal, political, moral and verbal violence experienced (...)
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