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
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 »
A warning Message: Prologue
Editor’s note: Janet McCloud has just published a profound paper entitled” A Warning Message to All Indian Nations and Our Friends and Supporters,” by Yet Si Blue (her Indian name). In a brave and eloquent call to save threatened Native Americans, McCloud details the history and nature of three crises facing her people and asserts… Read more »
Radical Women’s 10th Anniversary Conference
The idyllic, even bourgeois, setting at the Admiralty Resort in Port Ludlow, Washington, belied the intentions of the 125 or so women who went to the annual Radical Women Conference. They were celebrating their tenth anniversary as the nation’s oldest socialist-feminist group. They were talking about revolution. … members and interested nonmembers listened to presentations… Read more »
Clara Fraser: Bread, Roses, and Heresy
Dateline: Lincoln, Nebraska. A small airport, its contours softened by snowfall and moonlight. The car skids on the exit road. My older son, Marc Krasnowsky, drives blithely through the icy slush; his friend Moira Ferguson hands me a leaflet. “We expect about 30 people,” she says excitedly, “but with this snow, it’s hard to tell.”… Read more »
Radical Women plenum – A giant step forward for revolutionary feminism
Radical Women, the voice of revolutionary socialist feminism in the United States, resoundingly extended the content, force and reach of its program at its Second National Executive Committee Plenum held in New York City in May at Columbia University. Exciting additions to the organization’s basic document, the Radical Women Manifesto, expanded on the international character… Read more »
Deep in the heart of Texas lives an indomitable woman radical – Laura Brode
Barbara Brown: What kind of a childhood did you have in New York City? Laura Brode: A daily struggle to live. We were on welfare or on charity. I was sick a lot, and at the hospital I saw how the social workers talked down to us poor people. Then, when I was about 17,… Read more »
A victory for socialist feminism — Organizers report on the 1969 FSP conference
VII. 1969: A New Conjuncture and A New Growth As the new year rolled in, the FSP was left with its name, its integrity, an excellent and popular headquarters, and a lot of experience. But the party was detached from the white student movement and lacked a substantial periphery. The Tide Turns 1. The New… Read more »
