oppression and identity
Our demands are practical conclusions which we have drawn from the burning needs, the shameful humiliation of women, in bourgeois society, defenceless and without rights.
– Vladimir Lenin
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Hands off our bodies! – Activists mobilise to defend abortion rights
News that abortion rights in the USA could soon be repealed has provoked a backlash of protest across the globe, including in Britain. Our freedoms will never be secure under capitalism. The fight for liberation must be a fight for revolution.
Women’s struggle in history | Women’s liberation: The Marxist position
Lubna and Natasha discuss the role of women in various revolutionary struggles throughout history.
The origins of women’s oppression | Women’s liberation: The Marxist position
Laurie O’Connel uses the historical materialist method to trace the roots of women’s opression, and explain what we must do to fight it.