For the Liberation of Women – Clara Zetkin

For International Working Women’s Day, we share the following translation, which comes from a speech that the German revolutionary socialist and working women’s advocate Clara Zetkin gave at the International Workers’ Congress in Paris on July 19, 1889. Although we think it is worth republishing, we do have some points of disagreement where the speech […]

Malignant Ulcers of Capitalism: The Proletarian Struggle for Reproductive Freedom (Part 1)

(This is the first installment in a series of articles that we have written with the Internationalist Workers’ Group in the United States) In this first piece on reproductive struggles in class society we bring to focus some of the facts and dangers surrounding abortion and contraception, as well as the family unit and prostitution, […]

The Origins and Capture of International Working Women’s Day

International Working Women’s Day (IWWD) was initially spawned from within the workers’ movement, with the aim of drawing in more working women to the fight for the protection of female labour. These workers’ demands included insurance for mother and child, and political rights for working women.