Breaking the Chains

Articles from Breaking the Chains, a socialist women’s magazine produced by the PSL

Breaking the Chains

Williana Burroughs: Communist housing organizer

Erika Hidalgo

October 4, 2018

Williana Burroughs was a dynamic and dedicated communist in Depression-era Harlem. Bringing her radical politics into the struggles Black Harlemites faced, and vice versa, Burroughs helped establish trust between the Communist Party and the community. ...

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Not just rich people and cafes: Toward a socialist understanding ...

Yasmina Mrabet

September 12, 2018

Gentrification is the systematic process of displacing poor people from a community and replacing them with more affluent people, all in the interest of profit. It has become a primary local policy of the representatives ...

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More than survival: the struggle for women’s healthcare

editor

September 5, 2017

Since the somewhat surprising election of Donald Trump, the Trump administration, the Republican Party and other reactionary forces have been salivating over the destruction of the Affordable Care Act. While the ACA is limited in ...

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No Borders in the Women’s Liberation Struggle

Nathalie Hrizi

March 5, 2017

There are millions of immigrant workers in the United States. The United States economy is entirely dependent on the work of immigrant and U.S.-born workers alike. All workers must work to survive. Workers are not ...

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Black communist leader Claudia Jones was commemorated on a Royal Mail stamp in 2008.

Claudia Jones: revolutionary feminist and fighter

Adiah Hicks

December 1, 2016

Claudia Jones was a revolutionary communist and anti-colonial activist. Born Claudia Vera Cumberbatch on Feb. 21, 1915, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Jones spent her life fighting for the liberation of the workers of the world. She ...

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During the Bread and Roses strike, soup kitchens fed the workers’ children.

The Bread and Roses strike of 1912

Graciela Pichardo

December 1, 2016

As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses, For the people hear ...

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Ieshia Evans refuses to disperse and stands up to militarized police in Baton Rouge after the lynching of Alton Sterling. Photo: Jonathan Bachman

Strengthening the women’s movement through anti-racism

Nyree Hall

August 1, 2016

Centuries of slavery, Jim Crow segregation, and institutionalized discrimination have deepened the divide between Black and white families. When it comes to low-wage work, 64 percent of women are employed in low-wage jobs compared to ...

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A Marxist perspective on ending women’s oppression

Radhika Miller

August 1, 2016

Sexism is so endemic today that it can be difficult to imagine a society that does not degrade and devalue women. Modern capitalist society is a form of class society, and in today’s capitalist society women face ...

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