The liberation of women and the socialist revolution are inseperable
tasks requiring the active participation of women workers in the
organised labour movement. This recording of Barbara Humphries speaking
at the Socialist Appeal xmas day school explains the double expoitation
of women under the capitalist system, the history of women in the
labour movement, the impact of imperialist aggression on women and the
nature of feminism and positive discrimination.
Listen here.
See also:
The strike at Grunwicks 1976-1978 – 30 years on
By Barbara Humphries, 05 September 2007
Remembering International Women’s Day 1917 – The gains made for women by the Russian Revolution
By Miriam Martin, 08 March 2007
Marxism and the emancipation of women
By Ana Muñoz and Alan Woods, 08 March 2000