Cuban Revolution set example in fight for women’s emancipation

Vol. 85/No. 48 - December 27, 2021
Students at Cuba’s Ana Betancourt School in early 1960s learn to measure and cut fabric. Set up by revolutionary government, school gave job training to peasant women for first time. Inset, Vilma Espín, a leader of the revolution, in 1958.

For those around the world who want to unite working people to advance our class interests and to end the second-class status of women, there is much to learn from the experience of Cuba’s socialist revolution. From the very beginning,…




Fight for women’s rights crucial for the class struggle today

Vol. 85/No. 47 - December 20, 2021
Bakery Workers union picket at Nabisco plant in Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 10, helped win nationwide battle for new contract. Women are in front ranks of struggles to strengthen union movement.

Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women by Evelyn Reed, Joseph Hansen, and Mary-Alice Waters is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for December. Below are excerpts from the preface by Waters to the Cuban edition of the book.…


Build support for women’s right to have an abortion!

Vol. 85/No. 46 - December 13, 2021

As the Militant goes to press, the Supreme Court was hearing arguments over a Mississippi law that poses a direct challenge to a woman’s legal right to choose whether to have an abortion. Organizing to win a strong majority of…


Socialist revolution in Russia set out to emancipate women

Vol. 85/No. 43 - November 22, 2021
Women at literacy class after triumph of 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. “Social construction,” Leon Trotsky writes, must improve “the position of mother and child.” Without child care, health care, culture reaching women, including in the countryside, “socialism is unthinkable.”

Women and the Family by Leon Trotsky is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for November. Trotsky describes how under the leadership of Lenin and the Bolshevik Party workers and peasants fought to defend their revolution and to transform…


Calls to silence UK professor hit free speech, women’s rights

Vol. 85/No. 41 - November 8, 2021
Professor Kathleen Stock has won support against demands by campus protesters University of Sussex in Brighton fire her. In name of fighting transphobia, they target free speech and her defense of women’s rights. Inset, her book, Material Girls — Why Reality Matters for Feminism.

LONDON — Professor Kathleen Stock is winning support in her fight against calls by campus protesters for the University of Sussex in Brighton to fire her. The campaign against Stock targets free speech and her defense of women’s rights. It…


Fight Texas law that attacks a woman’s right to choose abortion

Vol. 85/ No. 39 - October 25, 2021

Two days after U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman ordered an injunction blocking a Texas law that severely restricts a woman’s right to choose to have an abortion, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a request by the Texas…


Latin America: Thousands march for abortion rights

Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021

Carrying banners reading “Legal abortion now” and “Our right to decide” in a sea of green shirts and bandanas, thousands of women and their supporters demonstrated for women’s right to decide whether to have an abortion Sept. 28 in Ecuador,…


Thousands rally to defend women’s right to abortion

Continuing fight needed to win decisive support
Vol. 85/No. 38 - October 18, 2021
San Jose march, one of 660 actions Oct. 2 against attacks on women’s right to abortion. “We have to be more willing to debate, express our opinion and stand up for it,” said Jessica Hoag at Philadelphia march.

Tens of thousands marched for women’s right to choose abortion Oct. 2 in some 660 demonstrations in cities and towns, large and small, across the U.S. and some internationally. The rallies were called by Women’s March, and coordinated with more…