Clara Zetkin was a German Marxist theorist, activist, and advocate for women's rights. In 1911, she organized the first International Women's Day

Philip S. Foner was one of the most prominent Marxist historians in the United States. A prolific author and editor, he tirelessly documented the lives of workers, African Americans, and political radicals. Because of his political affiliations he was shut out of academic employment for a quarter century.

Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. Davis was politically active during the late 1960s through the 1970s and was associated with the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. Davis was a political prisoner and is now a world-renowned scholar and author of Are Prisons Obsolete?

Rosalyn Baxandall was a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the State University of New York at Old Westbury and taught at the Bard Prison Project, and the CUNY Labor School. Baxandall is the author of Words on Fire, the Life and Writing of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, l987), the co-author of Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened, (New York: Basic Books 2000), the coeditor of America’s Working Women, An Anthology of Women’s Work, 1620-1970, (New York: W.W. Norton and Co, 1995) and (New York: Random House l976), and coeditor of Dear Sisters, Dispatches From Women Liberation (New York: Basic Books, 2000), as well as the author of almost 50 articles, book reviews, on day care, working women, sexuality, reproductive rights and class, race and gender in suburbia, l945- 2000.

Foreword by Angela Y. Davis
Introduction by Philip S. Foner

1889 For the Liberation of Women
1893 Women's Work and the Trade Unions
1895 The Women's Rights Petition and a Reply
1896 Only with the Proletarian Woman
1902 Protect Our Children
1903 What the Women Owe to Karl Marx
1907 Women's Right to Vote
1910 International Women's Day
1914 Proletarian Women Be Prepared
1914 To the Socialist Women of All Countries
1914 Letter to Heleen Ankersmit
1915 Women of the Working People
1917 To the Socialist Women of All Countries
1917 The Battle for Power and Peace in Russia
1919 Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg
1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
1926 In the Muslim Women's Club
1932 Save the Scottsboro Black Youths
1932 Fascism Must Be Defeated
1933 The Toilers Against War