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.
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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.
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.
Marxism vs Intersectionality
Jessica Cassell of Fightback in Canada explores the ideas of Marxism and intersectionality, contrasting the different views between these theories on where oppression comes from and how we can fight for an end to sexism, racism, and all other forms of oppression.
Macron and the Tories: Why is the Establishment so racist?
Social media has been alight this week with responses to two incidents of racism from prominent politicians: first from a Tory MP and then from liberal poster boy Emmanuel Macron. In today’s world, where sensitivity to racism has never been so acute, how is it – Ben Gliniecki asks – that leading politicians still manage to unthinkingly spout such racist remarks?
The plight of Pakistani women
Pakistan’s history is rich in struggle, with waves of strikes, mass movements, and revolution. At the forefront of that struggle have been Pakistani women, some of the most heavily and harshly oppressed women in the world. Speaking at the 2017 RMT Women’s Conference, Vic Dale reports on the terrible conditions facing Pakistani women.
Women before, during and after the Russian Revolution
The history of Bolshevism from the very early days right up to the Russian revolution contains a wealth of lessons on how it is the class struggle that provides the final answer to the women’s question. In this article, Marie Frederiksen looks at the approach of the Bolshevik Party to the women’s question from its early days, right through to the revolution and after taking power.