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Women and socialism-A century of struggle

Hundredth anniversary of International Women’s Day
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Women and the vote

December 14th 2009 will mark the 91st anniversary of a landmark election in Britain. Following the end of World War I it was the first election in ...
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Eleanor Marx – an inspiration to socialists

By Steve McKenzie _Eleanor Marx was the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, the greatest philosophical, political and social thinker of our times. She was born in Soho in London in 1855 and, not surprisingly, was a precocious child mixing with adults who were the most advanced political thinkers of their day....
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The origins of women's oppression

Well ye knowWhat woman is, for none of woman bornCan choose but drain the bitter dregs of woeWhich ever to the oppressed from the oppressors ...
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Why women don't have real equality

Eleanor Donne looks at the reality women face in Britain and asks: Have women really 'made it'? Do we now live in a 'post feminist' society and what are the roots of women's oppression? ...
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Marxism and women’s liberation

By Nick Jones___The emancipation of women has long been of importance and controversy for Marxists. It is necessary to critically examine those attempts on the left to champion an ‘anti-capitalist feminism’ as the solution to this form of oppression, as expressed most recently by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s front organisation, Feminist Fightback....
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Remembering International Women’s Day

By Miriam Martin, first published in 2007. ...
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International Women's Day 8 March: Don't make women pay for the bosses' crisis

By Sarah Sachs-Eldridge__Women faced discrimination when the economy is booming. What then will be the consequences for women of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s? A fightback is necessary to prevent a dramatic increase in women's oppression. ...
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