For Women’s History Month, People’s World presents this article from the Political Affairs archives. It was first published in April 2010. From its very outset, the struggle for women’s liberation has had deep connections to the development of the socialist movement.
The first mass labor protest by Mexican Americans took place in San Antonio in 1938 and met with harsh resistance from the city’s political establishment. A workforce of mostly Mexican American women picketed for five weeks to seek a living wage and basic workplace protections.