Arson at Wyoming family planning clinic is attack on women’s rights

Vol. 86/No. 23 - June 13, 2022
Riata Little Walker, backer of Wellspring Health Access family planning clinic damaged in arson attack in Casper, Wyoming, speaks at pro-choice rally there May 14. Women who face medical problems in a pregnancy “are the only ones who can make those decisions,” she said.

An arsonist damaged a family planning and women’s health center under construction in Casper, Wyoming, May 25. Wellspring Health Access, a national health care nonprofit that provides reproductive care in rural areas, plans to offer a range of services, including…


Women played the leading role in prehistoric society

Vol. 86/No. 22 - June 6, 2022

Woman’s Evolution: From Matriarchal Clan to Patriarchal Family by Evelyn Reed is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for June. Reed (1905-79) was a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party and participant in the women’s liberation movement of…



‘The revolution cannot triumph without emancipation of women’

Vol. 86/No. 13 - April 4, 2022
Revolutionary leader and President of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara speaks on International Women’s Day, March 8, 1987. He was assassinated that year in counterrevolutionary coup.

To mark International Women’s Month, the Militant is featuring the French edition of   Women’s Liberation and the African Freedom Struggle by Thomas Sankara. Sankara  led a popular uprising in August 1983 that established a revolutionary government in Burkina Faso, in…



Protest in Wales hits arrest of women’s rights fighter

Vol. 86/No. 10 - March 14, 2022

NEWPORT, Wales — Some 100 women and men gathered outside the police station here Feb. 24 to protest the arrest in January of women’s rights fighter Jennifer Swayne under “hate crime” laws. The action was sponsored by the Wales Women’s…


Women’s rights fighter Jennifer Swayne thrown in jail in Wales

Vol. 86/No. 9 - March 7, 2022
Protest outside Newport Central Police Station Jan. 31 in support of Jennifer Swayne, whose home was searched and was arrested for having a book that says sex is biologically determined.

LONDON — In an attack on the rights of all working people, Gwent police arrested women’s rights campaigner Jennifer Swayne under thought-control “hate-crime” laws Jan. 23. They searched her home, seizing materials, including the book Transgender Children and Young People:…



Too Many Babies?

Vol. 86/No. 1 - January 3, 2022

A woman’s private decision to decide when and how many children to have is being twisted by many liberal and middle-class radicals today who are hysterical about imminent climate change disaster and the bleakness of life they perceive. This has…