Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch is a classic work of anti-capitalist feminism. The book examines capitalism’s investment in sexism and racism, showing how the consolidation of the capitalist system depended on the subjugation of women, the enslavement of black...
The U.S. “justice system:” Sanctuaries of sexual abuse
Editor's note: This is a longer version of an article originally published in Breaking the Chains magazine. In December 2019, 14 women, both former and current inmates at the Coleman Federal Correctional Complex, filed a lawsuit accusing the Florida prison of creating...
Alexandra Kollontai (pt. 2): A historical-materialist approach to the family and love
Editor's note: The following is the second of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at The People's Forum in July 2020. This second part focuses on Kollontai's writing on the family and love. Part one covers Kollontai's struggle for proletarian feminism...
Alexandra Kollontai (pt. 1): The struggle for proletarian feminism and for women in the party
Editor's note: The following is the first of a two-part article based on a talk the author gave at the People's Forum in July 2020. This first part focuses on Kollontai's struggle for proletarian feminism against bourgeois feminism as well as her struggle to center...
A women’s demonstration, two revolutions, and the birth of a socialist state
The following first appeared in the Spring 2020 issue of Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. We must not underestimate the immense revolutionary power of women to ignite, fight, and win. The 1917 Russian Revolution that established the first...
Social reproduction: A theoretical framework with organizing potential
Editor's note: The following article first appeared in Breaking the Chains magazine, which you can purchase here. Cooking meals, accessing healthcare, doing the laundry, caring for children and the elderly, and taking out the trash are daily activities. We rarely...
The untold side of second wave feminism: A multinational, politically diverse movement
This article originally appeared as chapter seven 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 here....
Women and socialism: Three revolutionary case studies
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 has demonized each country and its leadership. As such...
Williana Burroughs: Communist housing organizer
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. And she fought...