This Sunday, on 8th March, is International Women’s Day. More than one-hundred years since the first International Working Women’s day in 1911, what is the situation for women in Britain in today? Seven years after the onslaught of the financial crisis, working class women remain oppressed due to their gender and exploited due to their class.

The ideas of Feminism have traditionally found support in universities, and these ideas are currently enjoying a surge in popularity amongst students. Continuing our series of articles to celebrate International Women’s Day – 8th March – we publish an article from the Marxist Student Federation, which looks at the ideas of Marxism and Feminism in relation to the student movement.

Continuing our series of articles on the fight against women’s oppression as part of International Working Women’s Day, we republish this 2001 article by Alan Woods which provides a Marxist analysis on the oppression of women, the fight for liberation, and the struggle for socialism.