Two Asian American poet-writers, highly visible in the San Francisco Bay Area as Trotskyist-feminist leaders, are drawing heavy fire from a variety of opponents equipped with a ready arsenal of racist, sexist, and anti-Trotskyist weaponry. But San Francisco Radical Women has launched a swift counter-offensive to expose the insidious, Stalinist-style politics of the slander-mongers. Nellie… Read more »
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No reliance on the FBI: Community defense of abortion rights
As harassment and violence against abortion clinics accelerate, it’s clear that an aggressive feminist response to the anti-abortion forces is urgently needed. The “pro-life” terrorists must be stopped before they strip us of our constitutional rights. The Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women support the National Organization for Women’s call for a national campaign in… Read more »
Pot Shots
Don’t mutter when you use the card catalogue. FBI Director William Sessions explains his agency’s efforts to turn librarians into informers: “We expect librarians to be aware of things that in their minds are in fact foreign, hostile intelligence-gathering efforts.” Before he had his polyps removed. “In every one of the far-flung trouble spots, dig… Read more »
The battle for Baby M: Surrogate mother vs. semen owner
The following column was printed in slightly altered form, in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 11 , 1987 in response to a previous column by Fredric Hayward, the misogynist director of Men’s Rights, Inc., which is a national anti-feminist organization headquartered in Sacramento, California. Lift the demagogic rhetoric of Men’s Rights, Inc., about “fetal… Read more »
The abortion wars: court clashes and street skirmishes
On April 9, six hundred thousand marchers for abortion rights in Washington, D.C. showed that the escalating war over women’s reproductive rights is revitalizing feminist activism. The U.S. pro-choice movement is stronger than at any time since 1973. Along with the new upsurge comes an old debate, a crucial one, over “respectable” liberalism vs. militant… Read more »
FSP and RW National Comrades of Color Caucus convenes: Reaffirms political leadership role
Two big achievements spelled success for us at the Second National Plenum of the Comrades of Color Caucus of the Freedom Socialist Party and its sister organization, Radical Women. The first was mapping out a political direction for the two groups in the people of color movements. The second, infinitely important, was building participants’ confidence… Read more »
The color of revolution
Nancy Kato, author of the document “Women of Color: Frontrunners for Freedom,” laid it on the line. “The struggle of women of color for equality is central to the elimination of the profit system and the success of revolution in North America.” The reasons are rooted in history and contemporary reality. “In 1992, it will… Read more »
Gender, keyboards, and the future of U.S. labor
Did you know that: Women comprise between forty-five and fifty percent of U.S. workers today? Sixty-seven percent of women between the ages of 18-64 now work outside the home? By the year 2000, ninety percent of new workforce entrants will be women and people of color? It’s all true — and that means a revolution-in-process… Read more »
Radical Women’s candidly revolutionary conference
From the tenth floor of a Santa Monica hotel overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Radical Women looked into the 1990s and smiled. This is the decade. It’s all in place. Let’s go. “The Third Wave of Feminism: A Candidly Revolutionary Approach,” was the theme of Radical Women’s 23rd anniversary conference February 17-20 in Santa Monica, California…. Read more »
Mohawk sovereignty the issue in Quebec
Debra O’Gara of Seattle Radical Women delivered the following statement at a rally in front of the Canadian consulate in Seattle on August 30. The rally, organized by local Native American activists and RW representatives, was called to support the Mohawk nation in its confrontation with the Canadian Army in Oka, Quebec. The faceoff commenced… Read more »
