Feminist Organization for Communication, Action and Service (FOCAS)

The Feminist Organization for Communication, Action and Service (FOCAS), a New York City-based feminist organization founded circa 1971 by women formerly active in the Women's Strike Coalition, an initiative of the Socialist Workers Party, a Trotskyist group, was active throughout the 1970s, and sought to create coalitions with other women's groups, initiate actions, hold forums and disseminate information. FOCAS published a newsletter, Majority Report (1971-1978), a complete run of which is held by the Tamiment Library.