Report on the 8th March in Hamburg, Germany

We the Red Women`s Comittee Hamburg mobilized for the International Women`s Day under the slogan „Proletarian Feminism for Communism!“. Part of the mobilization were posters and flyers, as well as an information event, which addressed and explained the proletarian feminism. In addition, in a central square of the University of Hamburg, a [...]

Capitalism, the sex trade and the oppression of women

 

11 March 2013. A World to Win News Service

This year on 8 March, International Women’s Day, as thousands of women were marching in central London to protest violence against women, a woman was performing a protest dance in Underground station where she had been harassed and molested. At the same time a [...]

International Womens Day:Past and Present-Anuradha Ghandy

 

8 March 2001 is the 91st anniversary of the International Women’s Day (IWD), which was first declared in 1910. In that year, Clara Zetkin, inspired by the working class women’s movement in America, proposed to the Second International Conference of the Socialist Working Women that an annual celebration of women’s day be held. [...]

A Rejoinder to JMP on Proletarian Feminism

 

First of all we would like to note that our original intervention was not as JMP seems to have interpreted it a challenge to the legitimacy of the project of proletarian feminism as the necessary development of a feminist discourse which upholds the leadership of the party, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the [...]

The RCP-PCR on the Women Question and the Gaps in the Discourse of Proletarian Feminism

We have long argued that a “proletarian feminism” which fails to take account of gender as a material production relation is not in fact a through scientific analysis but an objectively chauvinist ideological discourse. The RCP-PCR’s treatment of the matter is as good a case study as any:

Lets examine Chapter Eight of their [...]

EXODUS AND RECONSTRUCTION: Working-Class Women at the Heart of Globalization

Bromma (September 2012)

Introduction Hundreds of millions of working-class women are flooding out of the countrysides of the world into the cities. In an epic upheaval, pervaded with human suffering, these women are being channeled into the manufacturing and service industries of a radically transformed global economy. This wholesale relocation and reorganization of [...]

The Restructuring of Social Reproduction in the United States in the 1970s

(The following is the text of a paper that Silvia Federici wrote in 1980 for a Conference convened by the Centro Studi Americani in Roma on “The Economic Policies of Female Labor in Italy and the United States.” The Conference was held in Rome on December 9-11, 1980 and was co-sponsored by the German [...]

Sexual Relations and the Class Struggle (Alexandra Kollontai 1921)

"We are people living in the world of property relationships, a world of sharp class contradictions and of an individualistic morality. We still live and think under the heavy hand of an unavoidable loneliness of spirit."

Among the many problems that demand the consideration and attention of contemporary mankind, sexual problems are undoubtedly [...]

Climate change, biofuels threaten food security-FAO

Imperialist extermination or communist revolution. Its your choice

MILAN/ROME, March 7 (Reuters) – Climate change bringing floods and drought, growing biofuel demand and national policies to protect domestic markets could drive up global food prices and threaten long-term food security, the United Nations said.

High and volatile food prices are a growing global [...]

DR Congo refugees protest against poor treatment by UN staff

September 20

More than 100 refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) sheltering in the Republic of Congo have been protesting against poor treatment since Thursday in front of the offices of the UNHCR in Brazzaville.

Officials told Xinhua on Sunday that the refugees were angry with the bad treatment by the [...]