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Women and socialism: Three revolutionary case studies

Donna Goodman

October 18, 2018

The people of the United States have been taught nonstop for almost 100 years that the socialist revolutions in Russia (1917), China (1949) and Cuba (1959) constituted a danger to the world. Every U.S. president ...

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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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More than survival: the struggle for women’s healthcare

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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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History of Women's Struggle

New Book — Women Fight Back: The centuries-long struggle for ...

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March 7, 2017

The place of women in society has been put into sharp focus by the election of Donald Trump. As a candidate, he called for criminalizing women who have abortions, he was caught on tape bragging ...

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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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Radical Women Heroes

Nadezhda Krupskaya: Revolutionary woman and educator

Candice Yanez

February 26, 2017

Nadezhda Krupskaya was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary. A feminist who contributed to the women’s question, Krupskaya was also involved in establishing International Women’s Day. Her contributions to educational policy and theory were so immense that ...

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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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Black Liberation Heroes

Honoring Juana Ramirez “La Avanzadora”

Madeline Rosario Silva

November 19, 2016

“The media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” ...

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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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