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Written by Miriam Martin in Vancouver
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
 Mainstream feminism has attempted to reduce March 8th to a vague and depoliticised celebration of the female sex as a homogenous group, but to socialists and working class women the world over, it is a day for mobilizing, a day of class struggle. It was in fact first launched by Clara Zetkin at the second International Conference of Women Socialists, held in Copenhagen in 1910, with the aim of mobilizing women for the struggle against bourgeois domination. See also our section on Marxism and Women.
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Written by V.I. Lenin
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Wednesday, 08 March 2006 |
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"The working woman and the peasant woman are oppressed by capital, but over and above that, even in the most democratic of the bourgeois republics, they remain, firstly, deprived of some rights because the law does not give them equality with men; and secondly - and this is the main thing - they remain in "household bondage", they continue to be “household slaves", for they are overburdened with the drudgery of the most squalid, backbreaking and stultifying toil in the kitchen and the family household." V.I.Lenin, March 4, 1921 |
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Written by Elisabetta Rossi
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Tuesday, 30 March 2004 |
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On March 8, International Working Women’s Day, we published the first part of this article. The second part deals with the negative effects of the Stalinist degeneration of the soviet state and how this led to the undoing of all the work the Bolsheviks had started in their attempts to achieve a genuine emancipation of women. |
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Written by Elisabetta Rossi
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Monday, 08 March 2004 |
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To celebrate International Working Women's Day we are publishing an article on women and the Russian Revolution. It shows how that single event did more for women than any other struggle that had come before it and indeed after as well. First published (July 18, 2002) in issue Number 5 of 'In difesa del marxismo', the theoretical magazine of the Italian Marxist journal FalceMartello. |
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Written by Sonia Previato
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Thursday, 10 October 2002 |
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Tomorrow, March 8, is International Working Women’s Day, and to mark this important event we are publishing this article. It was first printed in issue Number 5 of ‘In difesa del marxismo’, the theoretical magazine of the Italian Marxist journal FalceMartello. Although originally written for an Italian audience we believe it is of interest to labour movement activists and youth around the world. |
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Written by Sonia Previato
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Thursday, 10 October 2002 |
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Following on from our publication of Part One of this article to commemorate March 8, International Working Women’s Day, we are publishing Part Two, which starts with the role of women in the Italian resistance movement and then goes on to analyse the Italian feminist movement from the Second World War up until today. |
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Written by Sadaf Zahra
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Wednesday, 10 July 2002 |
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Sadaf Zahra looks at the terrible situation in Pakistan where rapes and killings are done in the name of family honour, and are rarely investigated by the police. In areas where tribal customs still prevail, it is not uncommon for public punishment to be inflicted on women as a form of retaliation against their families. Such a case occurred recently in the village of Meerwala where a woman was subjected to gang-rape under the decision of a tribal council. |
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Written by Rukhsana Manzoor
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Tuesday, 09 April 2002 |
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This is a report from Pakistan on the conditions of women workers and the activities and programme of the Pakistan Trade Union Defence Campaign on this question. |
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Written by Marina Kosara, from the YS, Vienna
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Friday, 08 March 2002 |
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We are publishing a letter about the conditions of female immigrants to Europe written by Marina Kosara, a member of the Young Socialists in Vienna who works with immigrants. |
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Written by Gaye D. C.
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Tuesday, 05 February 2002 |
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This is a short article about the terrible conditions women face in Nigeria. |
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Written by Rob Sewell
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Thursday, 13 September 2001 |
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While middle class feminists regard the oppression of women as an inherent biological
trait of men, Marxism explains that the root of women's oppression lies not in biology,
but in social conditions.
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Women & Marxism 
