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Engels and women’s liberation

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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Women workers with artillery shell-filling factory, Chilwell, England, 1914

Women in World War One

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 […]

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Socialist Alternative is at the People’s Social Forum in Ottawa, August 21 – 24

We are involved in hosting 2 workshops: Friday, 10:45am, VNR 5070: Workers fighting back in the age of neo-liberalism and austerity. (Presented by REWT [Ontario Teachers’ Rank & File] & Offensive Syndical) Friday, 2:45pm, LMS 242 The lessons from 15 Now in the US (presented by Socialist Alternative and Alternative Socialiste) speaker from the US […]

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