On June 8th, 2019, I attended Milwaukee’s annual Pridefest. This was my first time attending, and although I had plenty of friends and acquaintances tell me what to expect, I still wasn’t entirely sure what it would be like. I… Read More ›
Women and LGBTQ+
News Relating to Gender Equality, Identity, Women’s Struggles, and the Fight Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
The Fascists are on the March Against Women’s Rights—We Must Respond
Ever since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973, the religious right in the United States has waged unrelenting war on the right of women to bodily autonomy, often using terroristic tactics in its war. With the rise of Donald… Read More ›
Rafael Surí, an Important Cuban LGBTQ+ Activist, Has Died
Read the original report in Spanish here. Rafael Surí, an important Cuban LGBTQ+ activist has died from illness at the age of only 31. According to the most recent reports from Cuba, “Rafa was facing a difficult health situation that… Read More ›
People’s Democratic Front of Peru: Greetings on International Working Women’s Day
Translated by MLtranslations.org “Under capitalism the female half of the human race is doubly oppressed. The working woman and the peasant woman are oppressed by capital, but over and above that, even in the most democratic of the bourgeois republics,… Read More ›
From the Head of the APL Women’s and LGBTQ+ Commission on International Working Women’s Day: Working Women, Unite !
Edited by J. Palameda Today is March 8, 2019 and today we celebrate International Working Women’s’ Day. Our enemies derisively ask why this day should be marked, as it seems like on the surface women in the modern United States… Read More ›
Women’s Emancipation in Socialist Albania
From: New Albania: A Small Country. A Great Contribution. (1980) Originally published by the USA – Albania Friendship Association. The emancipation and advancement of women are glorious achievements of Socialist Albania. Before liberation, the suppression of women was brutal,… Read More ›
Clara Zetkin: “Only in Conjunction With the Proletarian Woman Will Socialism Be Victorious”
Source: Speech at the Party Congress of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Gotha, October 16th, 1896. Berlin. Published: Clara Zetkin: Selected Writings, ed. by Philip Foner, trans. by Kai Schoenhals, International… Read More ›
