In celebration of International Women's Day, and in honor of Leila Khaled and all the women who have played a decisive role in the struggle for Palestinian national liberation, we are republishing this article originally published by Liberation School April 17, 2007....
Claudia Jones: “International Women’s Day and the struggle for peace”
Editor's note: The full text of Claudia Jones' famous 1950 speech, "International Women's Day and the Struggle for Peace," delivered at a rally and published in the March 1950 issue of Political Affairs, the monthly magazine of the Communist Party, USA. The...
Women’s triple load: The crushing weight of care work under capitalism
Editor's note: For International Women's Day, Liberation School is pleased to release the following article, which was originally published in the Summer 2022 issue of Breaking the Chains magazine, titled "The Women Worker." A Spanish translation is available here....
The root causes of the attacks on reproductive rights: A Marxist analysis
Editor's introduction: Women’s History Month is a time to recommit ourselves to the unfinished struggle for women’s liberation, and this year it is even more crucial than ever. The conservative leaning Supreme Court is considering gutting or even overturning Roe v....
Women’s struggle for suffrage and liberation: The road to legal equality
This article originally appeared as the fifth chapter in Donna Goodman’s Women Fight Back: The Centuries-Long Struggle for Liberation, published through Liberation Media and available for purchase here. Liberation School has a study and discussion guide for the book...
Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman
In commemorating Black August, we commemorate the struggle of those who have fought before us and faced violent repercussions from the state. We uplift the revolutionary history of the Black working class and its fundamental position in forging and leading the...
The legacy of Vietnamese women in the national resistance struggle
Editor's note: This article was initially published in Breaking the Chains magazine, a revolutionary feminist, socialist magazine that's produced by revolutionary women organizers in the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “Reduce rents and interest rates! Equal wages...
From abolition to Title IX: Women’s fight for education
Editor's note: The following article was originally published in Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. It is not the intelligent woman versus the ignorant woman; nor the white woman versus the [B]lack, the [B]rown, and the [R]ed — it is not even...
Celebrating International Women’s Day
Alexandra Kollontai (1872-1952) was a Russian communist organizer. She was exiled for conducting underground political work in 1908, but returned to Russia after the February 1917 revolution. To commemorate International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8, Liberation...