Karen Brodine (1947-1987) was a groundbreaking lesbian feminist poet, a founder of the Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a national socialist feminist leader. Her four books – Slow Juggling, Workweek, Illegal Assembly, and Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking – were critically acclaimed marvels of working class,… Read more »
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Stamp out fascism before it grows!
Reclaim Australia is a dangerous nationalistic, anti-Muslim grouping with neo-Nazi ties. Its main organiser claims to be a member of the fascist Australian Defence League. Fascism is a violent movement, fostered by the capitalist élite when it needs to crush potential revolt. Today, fascists churn up racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia to divide and weaken working… Read more »
May Day 2014: Clasping Hands across Borders
The May Day holiday that is now celebrated all over the world, known as International Workers’ Day in many places, was born in the struggle of U.S. anarchists, socialists, and other radicals for the eight-hour day, a fight that often cost these brave workers their lives. The campaign was led largely by European immigrants to… Read more »
Happy Women’s Rights Day from Radical Women
Women’s Rights Day commemorates the date that women in the United States finally won the right to vote on August 26, 1920. However, it took the Civil Rights movement for Black women to get access to the ballot box in 1965. These were important battles led by brave, audacious and radical grassroots organizers. But these… Read more »
Tax Big Business to Fund Education—Keep CCSF Public, Accredited and Open!
The battle to stop the privatization of community colleges jumped into high gear last week when CCSF was given one year to keep its doors open and beat back a ruling that strips its accreditation. The shocking decision by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) would close one of the largest campuses… Read more »
Seattle Radical Women statement at the Seattle anti-Putin demonstration
We are here today to join the Days of Solidarity Against Political Repression in Russia. My name in Su Docekal, and I am representing Radical Women, a socialist feminist organization. We are here in solidarity with our sister and brothers in Russia who are fighting the same fight that we have here – the same… Read more »
Women’s Rights Day 2012: For a game-changing feminist fight-back!
Happy Women’s Rights Day! August 26 marks the anniversary of women in the United States winning the right to vote in 1920. The campaign for suffrage came directly out of the battle to end slavery and was fought through militant actions in the streets, workplaces and halls of government. Today, the struggle for equality continues… Read more »
Radical Women: The Rising of the Women Means the Rising of the Race
As a socialist feminist organization, the Freedom Socialist Party predicted from its inception that women would be the dynamite in the new explosion of working class radicalism and that women workers and minority women would come to be the shock troops of feminism. Radical Women, founded in 1967 by women in FSP and Students for… Read more »
Prominent Feminists Evaluate Their Movement
Seattle — “I don’t think we’re at a crossroads — we’re at a dead end,” said Ti-Grace Atkinson, a founder of radical-feminism. “The crossroads was 1971, when the antiwar and civil rights movements disintegrated. With our former comrades gone, we turned inwards, upon ourselves.” “The moderates back away from confronting the right wing,” said Rosa… Read more »
Clara Fraser: The two “Julias”
The nationally syndicated gossip columns gleefully report that writer Lillian Hellman; the indomitable one, feuded with the director of Julia and refused to attend the premiere of this film based on her memoir, Pentimento. Good for you, Lillian. It’s bad enough that the rest of us had to see it. There’s a screwy scene in… Read more »