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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The role of working-class women during the Great Miners’ Strike
The Great Miners’ Strike, 40 years ago, saw working-class women fighting alongside striking men. This experience of united struggle began to cut away at sexism, providing a glimpse of how socialism could transform relations between men and women.
International Women’s Day: Fight sexism! Fight capitalism!
With capitalism in crisis, and reactionary politicians whipping up a ferocious culture war, the daily oppression that ordinary women face is getting worse and worse. Only united class struggle and the fight for revolution can offer real emancipation.
Lenin, communism, and the emancipation of women
The Russian Revolution made enormous strides forward for women. Lenin and the Bolsheviks showed the way forward in ending all oppression. It is our task, as communists, to complete the struggle they started: the socialist transformation of society.