Schlagwort: women
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Committee for a Workers‘ International: International Women’s Day
[Socialism Today, No 26, March 1998, p. 26-30] On 8 March 1857, in New York, the first mass demonstration of women workers took place in revolt against abysmal pay and working conditions, a date which has been commemorated since as International Women’s Day. Over 140 years on, real economic and social advances have been made…
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Margaret Creear: No immunity
[Militant International Review, No 47, 1992, p. 26-30] Margaret Creear examines the questions raised by the January report of the Law Commission, which reversed a 250-year-old ruling on marital immunity for rape. In 1917 the new Soviet government in the USSR abolished marital immunity for rape. This was part of wholesale changes made in the…
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Harriet Gill: Abuse – Bell’s Cleveland witchhunt
[Militant International Review, No 40, Summer 1989, p. 18-21] Harriet Gill, a London social worker who specialises in family and child-care work, analyses the issues arising from the Butler-Sloss enquiry. The most immediate questions that arise from the Cleveland child abuse events are: why does child sex abuse happen and how can it be prevented?…
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Jen Pickard: Women in the Soviet Union
[Militant International Review, No 37, Autumn 1988, p. 19-23] In his book Perestroika: New Thinking for our Country and the World, Gorbachev claims that women in the Soviet Union have “the same right to work as men, equal pay … every opportunity to get an education, to have a career and to participate in social…
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Margaret Creear: Women in Revolt
[Militant International Review, No 28, Winter 1985, p. 4-8] For Marxists, the movement of the miners’ wives and the many thousands of other women who have supported the miners in this dispute, is a welcome continuation on a higher level of the upsurge of militancy amongst working class women in recent years. It underlines the…
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History – Militant and the CWI
Could you sum up the history, firstly, of Militant and, secondly, of the CWI? What were the major landmarks? Militant did not drop from the sky. We trace our antecedents back to the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain and, of course, to Trotsky’s International Left Opposition. My generation joined in the early 1960s, others later.…