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 ›
Women and LGBTQ+
News Relating to Gender Equality, Identity, Women’s Struggles, and the Fight Against Homophobia and Transphobia.
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 ›
