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  1. Alexandra Kollantai — a Bolshevik fighter for women’s liberation

    key women in the revolution. Below is a short piece on Alexandra Kollantai drawn from the pamphlet. ... gains for women, including full formal equality, legalisation of abortion and attempts to liberate women ... Comrades in Arms: Women in the Bolshevik Revolution by Kathy Fairfax. It includes short biographies of some ...

  2. When radium killed women for profits

    instrumentation during World War I. Because of their nimble fingers, teenage and young women (and girls, some as ... industrial poison, unregulated by business-friendly governments, destroyed countless US women’s lives. ... their new jobs. Paid on a piece-work basis, the more dials (and thus more radioactive radium) they ...

  3. Live Blog: Catalonia's independence struggle

    self-determination. Pope John Paul II, speaking in the UN (on October 5,1995), vindicates this basic right when he ... harmony. CALL ON all citizens, the forces of public order and the politicians who direct them, to always ... prevail." 1700 hours Podemos Catalonia leader Albano Dante Fachin denounces a war by Spanish state leader ...