Oppression of Women

Olympic Games and Gender Issues

August 10, 2024 UNAC Editor Colonialism, Identity Politics, Oppression of Women, Paths to Emancipation

by Gabriela Fernandez, published on Resumen English, August 5, 2024 The Paris Olympics have been particularly marked by gender issues. This could be the logical response of a society haunted by the rancid conservatism of a neoliberal right that is gaining strength and for which the state should not have a say or regulate on sexual and reproductive freedoms. It[…]

Food Cuts Show Women Bear Brunt of Deepening Economic Crisis

April 27, 2023 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Human Rights, Oppression of Women, Poverty, Socialism, US Government Action

by Monica Moorehead, published on Workers World, March 16, 2023 No matter how large or small, no class struggle can be put into its social context without understanding the current global capitalist economic crisis. Neoliberal policies flow from long-term and short-term fluctuations within the capitalist system, which no ruling class can ultimately control. There used to be periods of ebbs[…]

Reproductive Justice and the U.S. Carceral System

July 10, 2022 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Prisons and Prisoners, Women

by Marie Kelly, published on Workers World, July 8, 2022 The Supreme Court ruling against reproductive rights guaranteed for 50 years in the SCOTUS Roe v. Wade decision has had dramatic and devastating consequences for anyone who can get pregnant but is trapped in the U.S. carceral system. Number of incarcerated women accelerating According to the Prison Policy Initiative, the[…]

Solidarity With Moms for Housing

January 27, 2020 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Poverty, Racism, Rights of Opressed Peoples

by Margaret Kimberley, published on Black Agenda Report, January 15, 2020 Black women in Oakland confronted the austerity regime head-on, by seizing the housing their families need. “Hopefully this tactic will spread and others will take the same action.” The four women in Oakland, California known as Moms 4 Housing have been evicted from the home they seized from unscrupulous speculators.[…]

Saudi Arabia: Terror at Home, Terror Abroad

July 22, 2019 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Saudi Arabia

by Azza Rojbi, published by Fire This Time Movement, July Issue It’s an honor to be with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, a friend of mine, a man who has really done things in the last five years in terms of opening up Saudi Arabia. And I think especially what you’ve done for women. -U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP in[…]

The Sentencing of Ahed, Nariman and Nour Tamimi: The Struggle Continues!

March 29, 2018 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Palestine

“There is no justice under the occupation and this court is illegal.” – Ahed Tamimi, 21 March 2018 from Samidoun Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi, 17, was sentenced by an Israeli military court on Tuesday, 21 March to eight months in Israeli prison. The sentencing came after a plea bargain was reached in the case and confirmed by the military court; the[…]

Smash Rape Culture and Capitalism

March 28, 2018 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women

By Monica Moorehead, originally posted on Workers World, March 22, 2018 This is a slightly edited version of a talk given at a Workers World Party forum on Feb. 3, titled “Women and the Struggle for Socialism,” in New York City. How could you have not been horrified at hearing woman after woman share their painful experiences of being sexually[…]

Our Feminism Must be Anti-Capitalist

March 14, 2018 UNAC Editor Oppression of Women, Resistance

By CELESTE MURILLO and ANDREA D’ATRI, published on Socialist Action, March 8, 2018 “The socialist who is not a feminist lacks breadth. The feminist who is not a socialist lacks strategy.” — Louise Kneeland On March 8, 2017, women around the world marched through the largest metropolitan centers. The call for a global strike revived International Women’s Day—long relegated to[…]