ABSTRACT
Author’s note: Radical Women is a multiracial, socialist feminist organization that works to foster the leadership of women. We are both activists and theoreticians, committed to working in coalition with other groups and individuals regarding common issues. Founded in 1967, Radical Women is an international organization that is the left wing of the feminist movement and the feminist wing of the radical movement. Radical Women believes that women of color and poor and working-class women will provide the leadership for feminism’s third wave in the 1990s, unlike feminism’s first wave, the suffragist movement, and the second wave, the women’s movement of the 1960s. We believe that women, particularly women of color, will provide the leadership that is necessary to usher in the revolutionary change for which the majority of the world’s people struggle. We believe that women of color, who face daily sexism, racism, and job discrimination, will lead militant movements because they have the least to lose and the most to gain from the end of capitalism.
