the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
May 18, 2026
This is the third book in a series about the book women of the Appalachian hills of Kentucky. Starting in the 1930s, the women, on mule-back, delivered books to remote hills and hollows, and fought illiteracy, ignorance and despair.
The main character has blue skin, a rare genetic condition. Laws put her in jail for marrying a white man. In this book, it is now the early 1950s, and you see life in a women’s prison. You see women locked up for defending themselves, for being in bad company, for mental illness, for resisting racism.
In the 1950s they used jail, violence, forced sterilizations, electric shock and lobotomies to try and control defiant women. Eventually she escapes and ends up migrating to Detroit. Along the way, in and out of prison, she never stops fighting ignorance and illiteracy and bringing hope and dreams of a better world to all.
This award-winning film depicts the events of 1946 Italy after the end of WWII, from the viewpoint of a working-class family in Rome. Filmed in black and white, you get a sense of what it was like to be a woman in a country just emerging from economic hardship, war, fascism and male patriarchy. The movie revolves around the mother receiving a mysterious letter which she hides away.
The film shows the family stuck in abusive relationships, living in close proximity to knowing neighbors, trying to maneuver harsh economic times. The daughter thinks nothing will ever change. Can the future be any better? The mother leads the way.