By Benjamin J. Rizzo, Red Phoenix correspondent, Florida. Long-established rights to abortion and reproductive healthcare are under attack as never before in America. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision of June 2022, which overturned its 1973 Roe v. Wade decision… Read More ›
Women
News relating to gender equality, women’s struggles, reproductive rights, and the fight against misogyny.
To be feminist is to be anti-war
Isabelle Bernardi | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon– The following is a speech written and presented by Isabelle Bernardi, Women’s Commissioner of the American Party of Labor, at an anti-war demonstration held in Portland, OR, during Martin Luther King Day… Read More ›
Seattle APL on Roe V. Wade: “Look To Your Comrades and Community”
The following was a speech given by members of the Pacific Northwest Division of the American Party of Labor at the 6/24 demonstration in defense of abortion rights in Seattle. To organize with them, contact them on facebook, twitter, or… Read More ›
“Now is the Time to be Out in the Streets:” An Interview with a Rise Up 4 Abortion Student Organizer
Interviewed by Isabelle Bernardi | Red Phoenix correspondent | Washington– During the May protests in Seattle against the Roe V. Wade draft decision that would overturn the legal protection of abortion rights, a Red Phoenix correspondent spoke to one of… Read More ›
The Failure of Reformism In the Battle for Reproductive Rights
By: June Vass, Red Phoenix Correspondent California As the upcoming Supreme Court review of Roe v Wade looms nearer, ongoing delays in addressing legal barriers to reproductive healthcare on the state level continue to endanger the well-being of all but… Read More ›
Gender, Gender Roles, and the Unity of the Working Class
By: The APL LGBTQIA+ Commission. To join our organizing commissions, click here. “Marxist-Leninists are not conservatives. On the contrary, they are the most progressive of people. Resolute fighters against all that is backward and outdated.” -Enver Hoxha There is an… Read More ›
From the APL Women’s Commission: COVID-19 and Pregnancy
Research articles into the acute effects of COVID-19 are coming out every month, and new investigatory focus has largely shifted to the long-term effects of COVID-19 infection. However, a large gap in the literature remains: impact of COVID-19 infection on pregnant people
ICMLPO: ALL WORKING WOMEN OF THE WORLD! LET’S UNITE AGAINST EXPLOITATION, VIOLENCE AND FASCIST AGGRESSION RISEN WITH THE PANDEMIC!
It has been a year since the coronavirus pandemic has begun. 95 percent of the earth with human population has been infected. Covid-19 has not only become a public health crisis which had an impact on the billions of human… Read More ›
Kamala Harris and Her Circumstances: Virtudes Alvarez (Communist Workers Party) on the Election of Harris
By Virtudes Alvarez, Translated by J. Palameda // November 8, 2020. The recently concluded electoral process in the United States of America is an obligatory topic in the analysis of international politics. All its aspects are important, including the election… Read More ›
El manifiesto del Encuentro de Mujeres de América Latina y El Caribe, por el 1 de mayo
A continuación se muestran el manifiesto del Encuentro de Mujeres de América Latina y El Caribe, por el 1 de mayo. Les invitamos a leer y compartirlo. haga clic aquí
May Day Declaration of the 3rd Annual Meeting of Latin American and Caribbean Women
Translated by J. Palameda “WOMEN DEMAND RESPECT FOR LIFE, FOOD SECURITY, UNIVERSAL HEALTH, AND AN END TO VIOLENCE” The Covid-19 pandemic has so far caused the death of more than 200,000 people around the world, and more than 3 million… Read More ›
Remembering and Unerasing Trans History: Two Medieval Writings on Trans Identity
One of the most prevalent attacks on trans people in the US, from both the left and the right, is that trans identity is a product of modern times and cannot be found in preceding eras. This is a product… Read More ›
Call to Refound the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
We issue this Call in a sense of outrage in the face of increasing racist violence and political repression towards working class and Black and Brown communities. We are currently facing a national epidemic of state-sponsored violence perpetrated by police… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›