by Katie Coles and Jane Hard   Editor's note: This article is reproduced from issue number 185 of the International Socialism journal. https://isj.org.uk/palestinian-womens-resistance-today-imperialism-islamism-and-violence/ The history of women’s activism in nationalist movements in Palestine has been eviscerated or marginalised at best. 1  Yet, women have played a central role in the Palestinian struggle against occupation by the British and then the Israelis dating back t

The following is a photographic and video record of the worldwide mobilisation of women fighting for their rights on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 2023. The photos are from actions that occurred on the day itself when women sometimes came out on strike and, in the case of Turkey, directly defied the authorities' ban on the march. The demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan was tiny, but the fact that it took place at all was testimony to the immense bravery and dete

Free Speech, women’s rights and the transgender offensive The last 5 years has seen a rising offensive, of an increasingly hysterical nature, targettting feminists and lesbians as well as artists, authors and academics who defend women’s rights. The immediate source of this onslaught is a relatively small layer of people active in the trans or transgender movement. The hysterical pitch and tone of their anger has manifest itself in physical attacks on feminists, vitriolic ab

The first wave of the worldwide struggle for women’s rights was centred on the suffragette movement in the UK. It was the activities of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WPSU) led by Emmeline Pankhurst which captured the greatest attention and which was finally dramatised in the 2015 film Suffragette. This article chronicles an equally important but little known chapter in this movement’s momentous history. -----------------------------------------------------------