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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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.