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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Smash sexism with socialism
We publish here a collection of articles by female comrades from the Marxist Student Federation looking at the many ways in which capitalism oppresses women.
100 years on: remembering the Representation of the People Act
A century on, Maxim Wright discusses the signficance of the 1918 Act that expanded the franchise to millions of women and men. But genuine democracy today remains restricted by capitalism.
LGBT liberation and Tory hypocrisy
As we arrive at the 50th anniversary of the partial decriminalisation of homosexual ‘acts’ between men, May and the Tories have been attempting to paint themselves as modern allies of the LGBT community. But with the impact of austerity hitting working class and migrant LGBT people particularly hard, the Conservatives’ hypocrisy is clear.