Fight for $15! Reconciliation Needs Housing and Healing TPP: Destroys Jobs and the Environment Housing Crisis in Vancouver and Toronto Pharmacare: The Right Prescription Work Sucks: We Need the Economy that Works for Workers Postal Workers Show the Way Upheaval in US Politics Québec Workers Mobilize: Union Leaders Demobilize 100 Years of Women’s Vote, but […]
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Emma Quinn is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in Ireland). Originally posted on Socialist Party, Ireland (CWI) website March, 2016 Young people internationally are being politicised by the oppression of women and LGBT people, opening up debates as to how this discrimination and inequality can be ended. EMMA QUINN looks at the experience […]
Continue ReadingClare Doyle is a member of the Committee for a Workers’ International. Working women’s fight for a world without oppression originally published on socialistworld.net Every year on March 8th we celebrate world-wide the contribution made by working women and famous female pioneers to the struggle for a new society. The date was established at an […]
Continue ReadingThis is a revised version of an article first published in Pakistan. Justin Trudeau’s appointment as Canada’s new prime minister has generated an incredible response from the global community. Whether it’s his photogenic good looks, his demeanour as the down-to-earth friend of the people or his no-austerity promises, Trudeau has not only given Canadian society […]
Continue ReadingHannah Sell is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Unpacking the backpack In the search for a way to fight against discrimination and oppression, many young people in particular embrace identity politics. It can be an important first step towards the development of socialist consciousness – if it leads on […]
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Engels and women’s liberation It is 130 years since the publication of The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, by Friedrich Engels. Long considered by Marxists an important text regarding the origin of women’s oppression, it has been criticized by those promoting alternative explanations of women’s second-class status in society. In the […]
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Jane James and Jim Horton are members of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). World War One resulted in the horrific slaughter of millions of workers who were initially encouraged and then conscripted into the bloody horrors of trench warfare. Women too were cajoled to do their bit for ’the war to end […]
Continue ReadingKailyn Nicholson is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Time to Build a Powerful Movement for Equality The misogynistic massacre of Santa Barbara, California is yet another horrific expression of a society that is based on the constant oppression of women. However, this expression of hatred also triggered a massive backlash. A storm of […]
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