International Working Women’s Day: the struggle for liberation continues
8th March is International Working Women’s Day, founded over 100 years ago to celebrate the struggles of working class women. The fight continues today.
Oppression
How can we really kick out racism?
A number of recent incidents reveal that the scourge of racism still infects English football. But charities and elite institutions will do nothing to stop it.
Women’s suffrage and class struggle
One century ago, women in Britain voted for the first time. Natasha Sorrell discusses the movement of the Suffragettes and their fight for the right to vote.
Which way forward for LGBT liberation?
Big business is attempting to portray itself as an ally of the LGBT community. But liberation will only be achieved by workers of all sexualities uniting in a struggle against capitalism.
Tory cuts fuel domestic violence and abuse
Tory austerity – in the form of universal credit – is trapping women in abusive relationships.
The Dagenham machinists strike and the struggle for equality
50 years ago, women at the Dagenham Ford factory began a strike that became a turning point in the fight for equality.
The assassination of Martin Luther King
To commemorate the 50th anniversary since the death of Martin Luther King Jr., we publish here an extract from a longer article examining the evolution of MLK’s politics. By the time of his assassination, he was drawing socialist conclusions.
Capitalism, advertising, and ‘diversity’
Ravi Mistry looks at the cynical way in which exploitative big businesses present themselves as allies of oppressed groups in order to sell their products and make profits.
Fight women’s oppression! Fight capitalism!
We publish here a statement by the International Marxist Tendency that is being distributed in demonstrations across the world for International Women’s Day. The struggle for women’s liberation must also be a fight for socialism.
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.
Claude McKay, the New Negro Movement, and the Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution, 100 years ago, had a global impact on political consciousness. In the USA, the period was one of a developing militancy amongst African Americans. Claude McKay represented the overlap between the revolutionary Communist movement and that of the anti-racist, anti-colonial struggle.