Tag: Women
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Women’s Liberation is a Class Issue.
International Working Women’s Day (IWWD) did not begin as a marketing opportunity or a celebration of individual female ‘empowerment’. It was a working-class, communist initiative, born out of the struggle of women workers for political power, economic independence and liberation from exploitation. Its origins lie in socialist organising and in the understanding that women’s oppression…
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A Response To Trade Union Betrayal Of Women Workers
“If facts hurt your feelings, you need new feelings, not new facts” – Ricky Gervais Ever since the Supreme Court ruling in April, we’ve seen a steady stream of incoherent liberal cope. A recent example comes from The Herald, in an article, titled “Trade Union Action on the Supreme Court Ruling Not Off the Table,”…
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The Unpaid Labour of Motherhood
We at the project would like to wish a happy Mother’s Day to all the mums out there raising the next generation of workers and, hopefully, revolutionaries. Now, we understand that in today’s world it’s not always mothers who raise the children. Sometimes it’s the father. But more often than not, especially for those on…
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