The US Supreme Court voted to strike down a Texas law aimed at restricting access to abortion facilities. Similar laws were rejected in Mississippi, Wisconsin, and Alabama.
Women’s Emancipation
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Crisis of Capitalism Hit Women Workers Hardest: Whatever Happened to Women’s Wage Equality?
Working women have been struggling for complete equality in the workplace for over a century.
Which Way Forward in the Struggle for Abortion Rights?
The struggle for abortion rights has always been vitally important for Marxists. The choice of having and raising children is always more difficult for the working class. Many working class women are forced to obtain an abortion because they have no adequate or affordable child care, and cannot afford to simply quit their jobs. This is not as much of an issue for most wealthy women. Even when abortion was illegal, many ruling class women could have it done secretly and safely by a private doctor, or travel to a country where it was legal to have the procedure. On the other hand, working class women were forced to endure dangerous and unsafe conditions, with abortions performed by people who were often not trained medical professionals. Many women died or were severely injured by the procedure.
The Attack on Women’s Rights
So-called “pro-life” opponents of a woman’s right to choose have led a fervent battle against the basic liberties of women.
Motherhood in America
You would expect from a rich capitalist country like the US that the position of women and the circumstances for motherhood would be some of the best in the world. This is far from the truth.
Women in the Paris Commune
The working women of the Commune fought for women’s rights on a class basis, and defended the revolution with their very lives.
Rape cases highlight terrible plight of women in Pakistan
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.
The Origins of Women’s Oppression
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.
Women and the Suffrage
This article looks at the history of the struggle of women to win the right to vote. Barbara Humphries looks at this issue and how it relates to the development of the class struggle.
Marxism and the Emancipation of Women
This document outlines the first steps given by Marxism to fight for women’s rights, what the first successful revolution meant for the emancipation of women, conditions of women under capitalism, and poses the question of how to eliminate inequality between men and women for good.
Women in the Soviet Union
We reproduce here an article from 1988 which examines the position of women in the former USSR.
The Communist: The Voice of America’s Communist Generation
The Communist is the official newspaper of the party of the Revolutionary Communists of America. It is different from any other publication you’ll find in the US today. Behind this newspaper, there’s a vast network of communist activity from coast to coast. It is a tool for organizing in the streets, at protests and strikes, for building communist cells in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and campuses.
The RCA is on a mission to carry Bolshevism into the political arena of a country that’s ripe for it. Yes, we’re Bolsheviks living in the digital age, and we also use social media and our podcast to spread the communist program. But we’re not the kind of internet leftists who stay inside and “do politics” online. That’s why we need something we can carry with us into the streets and put into people’s hands. The physical paper is an instrument for building a real-life organization—a genuine Communist Party of fighters.