Syrian Socialist Feminist Speaks at Los Angeles Left Coast Conference
There appears to be an orientalist disposition by Western society towards progressive movements in the Middle East. . . There is the assumption that aims for democracy in the Middle East by Middle Easterners, and even more so by Middle Eastern women are overly...
Women are at the forefront of challenging extremism in Idlib, Syria
The existence of extremist militant groups in Idlib province is the justification given by the regime and its Russian ally for continuing aerial assault. Yet these airstrikes, which usually target residential areas and vital civilian infrastructure, and which maim and...
Solidarity with Iranian Women Political Prisoners and Women Indicted for Opposing the Compulsory Hijab or for other Social Justice Activities
Below, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Socialists is providing short biographies of several of the most well-known feminist political prisoners, in order to heighten awareness of the important role of women in the current protest movement in Iran and to promote...
Migrant Women Fighting for Reproductive Rights
Editors’ Note: The article below has been submitted to the Alliance by MERJ, an organization of migrant and ethnic minority women who fight for women’s reproductive rights and wish to reach out to more Middle Eastern and North African women. May 14, 2018 We are...
How I Became a Feminist: A Brazilian Labor Leader Speaks to Iranian Women
Editors’ Note: Helena Silvestre is the National Coordinator of the Luta Popular Movement in Brazil and one of the signatories of a recent statement by a group of international socialist feminists in solidarity with Iranian women(see link below). She was inspired to...
Interview with a Turkish Socialist Feminist
Despite the repressive and authoritarian government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey, on International Women's Day, March 8, 2018, tens of thousands of women courageously marched in Istanbul to oppose patriarchy and violence against women. Below, we reprint an ...
Free Leila Hosseinzadeh and Other Iranian Students Who Are on Trial for Demanding Democratic Rights
It was the leftist students at Tehran University who stood in solidarity with the nationwide protests and chanted “Reformist or principalist, this story has come to an end!”, a powerful slogan that challenged party-centric establishment politics and immediately became...
Iran: Ongoing Labor Strikes, Women’s Protests and Ideas for International Solidarity
“The Free Union of Iranian Workers considers itself part of the movement for liberation from gender discrimination and any type of inequality in the social life of human beings. Thus we condemn the attacks on justice-seeking and freedom-loving women and men in front...
Los Angeles Panel: New Directions for Socialist Feminist Resistance, An International Dialogue
Speakers: Arielle Concilio, Latina gender studies student and activist, member of Left Voice Julia Wallace, Black anti-racist activist, member of SEIU and Left Voice Ashleigh Campi, gender studies and political theory scholar and activist Frieda Afary, producer...