Against the Current, No. 31, March/April 1991
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Bring the Troops Home Now!
— The Editors -
What a Friend We Have in Dinkins
— Bob Fitch - International Women's Day--1991
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The Rebel Girl: The Rapping Rebel
— Catherine Sameh -
Toward a Socialist-Feminist Strategy
— Johanna Brenner -
Women's Blood at the Root
— Mechthild Nagel -
Toward a New Imperium?
— interview with Janice Terry -
Palestine's Difficult Prospects
— interview with Anan Ameri -
Gulf War: An Iranian Perspective
— interview with Ali Javadi -
A Community Under Siege
— interview with Jessica Daher - The Intifada and Women's Struggle
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Chemical War Against Civilians
— Israel Shahak -
Missiles, Masculinity and Metaphors
— Anne Finger -
The Media and the War Drive
— Nabeel Abraham -
Eco-Apocalypse Now
— Richard Latker -
A Hard Rain's Goin' to Fall
— John M. Miller -
Emergence of Iranian Workers
— Ali Javadi -
Citizenship and Civil Rights in Kuwait
— interview with Mahmood Ibrahim -
Tikkun and the Gulf War
— Justin Schwartz -
The Soviet Union and Iraq
— Hillel Ticktin -
Iraq: The Republic of Fear
— Joseph A. Massad -
Soviet Union-Eastern Europe, Part II: Nature of the Transition
— Robert Brenner -
Sexist and Misguided
— Sabiyha Robin Graham -
Another Commy Plot?
— John Vandermeer -
Random Shots: The Gulf War Miseries
— R.F. Kampfer
MARCH 8 is International Women’s Day. Like May Day it is an anniversary that grew out of U.S. working-class experience. Initiated by socialist women to call attention to the specific problems of working women, it was first celebrated in 1909. It was especially important in mobilizing U.S. working women in the fight for suffrage.
During World War I, the women’s movement in Germany held the first antiwar demonstration with a march to prison, to express solidarity with Rosa Luxemburg, a leading socialist imprisoned for her antiwar views. And in 1917, a women textile workers’ demonstration for bread and peace unexpectedly triggered the Russian Revolution that overthrew the Tsar.
This anniversary will be an opportunity for women to reach out to newly radicalizing women, and we take note of the participation of women organized as women in today’s antiwar movement.
In this issue of ATC we feature an analysis of the politics of welfare—an important aspect of feminist analysis and class struggle today—as well as a feminist analysis of the media’s coverage of the Gulf war, a resolution from a recent Palestinian women’s conference, and two book reviews.
ATC welcomes a new columnist, Catherine Sameh, whose work has appeared in the Portland Alliance.
Maryc-April 1991, ATC 31