‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so-called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International Democratic Federation, the article intends to delve into the relationship between global far-left, non-White women's organisations in the United States and the Global South. Using extensive archival sources internal to the organisation, this work highlights the 1980s as a central period for anti-imperialist women's activism against the Reagan administration and for the formation of international grassroots connections.