Germany’s attempt to muzzle thinker and philosopher Achille Mbembe on the grounds of anti-semitism amounts to an extension of Israeli apartheid, writes Majed Abusalama. When it comes to Israeli injustices, the German government is not only “turning a blind eye”, but is also acting as its European modern day saviour. Over the past few years, […]
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Louise Otto Peters and Clara Zetkin
Rebellious Daughters of History #8 by Judy Cox Louise Otto Peters (1815-1895): ‘The Lace-makers’ (1840) Born in March 1819 to a middle-class family, Louise Otto-Peters was educated at home by a radical father. After his death, she established herself as a writer to support herself and her sisters, publishing volumes of socially committed novels and […]
Macron, the COVID 19 Crisis and Class Resistance in France
Interview with John Mullen (JM) carried out by International Socialists in the Netherlands (IS) IS : I think it’s important to start off with the current crisis. Can you say something about what’s been happening in France? JM: The virus in France has killed nearly 30 000 people, but the sanitary and the economic effect of the […]
Käthe Kollwitz, Constance Gore Booth and Eva Gore Booth
Rebellious Daughters of History #7 by Judy Cox The Art of Resistance: Käthe Kollwitz (1867-1945) Käthe Kollwitz’s artistic work depicts war and revolution and champions the dispossessed. Käthe Schmid was born in Kaliningrad, daughter of a bricklayer. Barred from studying art in her hometown because she was a woman, she moved to Berlin and Munich […]
Larissa Reissner and Eliza Cook
Rebellious Daughters of History #6 by Judy Cox Larissa Reissner (1895-1926): Writer, soldier and revolutionary Larissa Reissner was born in Lublin, Poland. Between 1903 and 1907, her family was forced to live in exile in Berlin because of her father’s activism. After 1905 Russian Revolution, the family moved to Saint Petersburg Larissa attended St Petersburg […]
Anna Wheeler and Frances Harper
Rebellious Daughters of History #5 by Judy Cox Anna Wheeler’s famous appeal Anna Wheeler (1780–1848) was one of the first socialist feminists to speak out in public to demand radical reform. Anna married Francis Massey Wheeler when she was 15 but he was an abusive alcoholic and she later left him. Wheeler’s husband died in […]
Harriet Tubman and Alexandra Kollontai
Rebellious Daughters of History #4 by Judy Cox Harriet Tubman (1822-1913): Emancipation and Liberation Harriet Tubman was one of the greatest women to fight against slavery and women’s oppression. She will be familiar to many as a leader of the underground railway but this was only one chapter in her remarkable life. Harriet was born […]
Adelaide Knight and Nathalie Lemel
Rebellious daughters of history #3 by ,,Judy Cox Adelaide Knight – From suffrage to communism Adelaide Knight was born in 1871 and lived with her working class family on Kenilworth Road in Bethnal Green. After a childhood injury she used crutches or a stick for the rest of her life. In 1894 Adelaide married a […]
Frances Wright and Jeanne Deroin
Rebellious Daughters of History #2 by Judy Cox Frances Wright (1795 –1852) Wright was a Scottish-born lecturer, writer, freethinker, feminist, abolitionist. She mixed with radical thinkers and philosophers in Britain and the US. In 1825, she became the only woman to set up a utopian community, the Nashoba Commune, Tennessee. It was the only such […]