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 ›
Women and LGBTQ+
News Relating to Gender Equality, Identity, Women’s Struggles, and the Fight Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
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 ›
Alexandra Kollontai on International Working Women’s Day
First Published: Mezhdunarodnyi den’ rabotnitz, Moscow 1920; Translated: Alix Holt 1972; Transcribed: Tom Condit for marx.org, 1997; Proofed: and corrected by Chris Clayton 2006. From the Marxist Intenet Archive — https://www.marxists.org/archive/kollonta/1920/womens-day.htm?fbclid=IwAR1XrhtjSHWfDgL4KnBQ9e1g44R8Kp9QSqMNVT4sQ0JgAVeff3y7d-otmDc A Militant Celebration Women’s Day or Working Women’s Day is a day of international… Read More ›
We Demand the Rights of Women!
From the Platform of the American Party of Labor — http://americanpartyoflabor.org/publications/general-information/platform-of-the-american-party-of-labor/ We demand the reproductive rights of women, including access to free and safe abortion, be respected. We demand an end to the intimidation of women and the staff… Read More ›
El Feminismo es Táctico en la Lucha por la Emancipación de la Mujer
El artículo original de la UJRM se puede encontrarse aquí. Qué fuerza a los propietarios de las fábricas a aumentar el precio del trabajo, a reducir horas e introducir mejores condiciones de trabajo, si no el temor a una grave… Read More ›
No Erasure of LGBTQ+ People!
On Sunday, October 20th, the Trump administration announced that it was considering adopting a strict definition of “sex,” as it applies to anti-discrimination law. Under the proposed definition, gender will be considered fixed and immutable, with one’s gender assignment at… Read More ›
Democrats Put Cowardice On Display With Supreme Court Confirmation
“And so, the “enlightened” judges of constitutional states are fulminating against all participation of people’s representatives in legal procedure.” -V.I. Lenin When Brett Kavanaugh was nominated by President Trump to fill the empty seat on the Supreme Court, yet another dividing line… Read More ›
Call for the Second Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Women
Translated by Red Phoenix staff. Call for the Second Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Women Quito, September 28 – 30 2018 Women for the Liberation of the Peoples and for Our Emancipation! We, the women of Latin America and… Read More ›
Declaration of the 22nd International Seminar on the Problems of the Revolution In Latin America: “The Validity of Karl Marx’s Revolutionary Thought.”
Translated by Red Phoenix staff. Validity of Karl Marx’s Revolutionary Thought. There are many occasions in which the defenders of capitalism have proclaimed the obsolescence of Marxism and the certain possibility of the triumph of the social revolution of the… Read More ›
“Karl Marx’s Legacy in the Reinvigoration of the US Labor Movement:” Presentation by the American Party of Labor at the 22nd International Seminar on the Problems of the Revolution in Latin America.
Quito, Ecuador (July 26, 2018) This presentation was delivered by Comrade John Palameda at the 22nd International Seminar as a delegate representing the American Party of Labor. A year has passed since the national secretary of the American Party of… Read More ›
Pride Means Fight Back
Pride once meant the pride that it took to not become a statistic in a system of oppression that produced early graves and starvation-level poverty. Pride once meant remembrance of the sacrifices made by historical LGBTQ+ figures who put their… Read More ›
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