The killing of Sabina Nessa – No safety under capitalism
On the 24 September, hundreds of people joined a vigil at Pegler Square to pay their respects to Sabina Nessa, another victim of the epidemic of violence against women.
Rape culture in schools: The product of a sick system
Women will never be viewed as equals within a society built upon inequality and injustice. Neither women nor men will ever have control over their lives and bodies within an economy based on exploitation, profit, and competition, and commodification. And we will never rid the world of misogyny, as long as the capitalist class are in control, using sexism and bigotry to divide the working class.
Birmingham: end women’s oppression! End capitalism!
The murder of Sarah Everard has exposed the day-to-day dangers still facing women under capitalism. Across the country, people have begun to protest against this oppression, and the institutions that enforce it. Birmingham is no different, as students began to mobilise in response to reports of attempted kidnappings, sexual assault Read more…
Sarah Everard: Killed by the system we’re told ‘protects’ us
“Killed by the system we’re told ‘protects’ us.” These were the striking words on one placard at yesterday’s vigil for Sarah Everard in London – a protest against the daily violence, oppression, and unsafe conditions that women face under capitalism. The horrific murder of Sarah Everard has led to an Read more…
Marxism and the Emancipation of Women
“To alter the position of woman at the root is possible only if all the conditions of social, family, and domestic existence are altered.” (Trotsky, Women and the Family, p. 45.) Capitalism is in a blind alley. The crisis of capitalism on a world scale falls with special severity on Read more…
IWWD – The Origins of Women’s Oppression
Today marks International Working Women’s Day. A day to look at the oppression of women historically and currently. It is clear that women still face huge levels of oppression. Women face a double shift of work under modern capitalism, having to work to make money and still taking the brunt Read more…
To the Working Women – Lenin 1920
Comrades, the elections to the Moscow Soviet show that the Party of the Communists is gaining strength among the working class. It is essential that women workers take a greater part in the elections. The Soviet government was the first and only government in the world to abolish completely Read more…
Marxism vs Intersectionality
The crisis of capitalism has given rise to a mood of questioning and mass movements across the world. From the Spanish Indignados, to the Syntagma Square in Greece, and more recently the Nuit Debout in France, youth are starting to take action and challenge the capitalist system. As part Read more…
Smash sexism with Marxism
The root cause of all forms of oppression is the division of society into classes. This oppression can take many forms. Alongside class oppression we find the oppression of one nation over another, racial oppression, and the oppression of women. Marxists must fight against oppression and discrimination in all its Read more…
Abortion is a right: Rees-Mogg is a relic
Tory politician, potential new Tory party leader, and arch-reactionary Jacob Rees-Mogg is opposed to abortion under all circumstances and with no exceptions. It’s mind-blowing that, almost 100 years after the USSR became the first country in the world to fully legalize abortion in 1920, this is still a topic at Read more…
A woman’s place is in the revolution: new pamphlet for International Working Women’s Day
We’re delighted to announce the publication of a new pamphlet, edited by Natasha Sorrell of the Sheffield Marxist society, to celebrate International Working Women’s Day. The pamphlet contains an introduction by Natasha which discusses the lessons that can be learned from the history of the struggle of working class women. Read more…
A woman’s place is in the revolution
To celebrate International Working Women’s Day 2015 Natasha Sorrell from the Sheffield Marxists discusses women in revolution throughout history. Below we reproduce several quotations from Lenin, Kollontai and others on the same subject. “No party or revolution in the world has ever dreamed of striking so deep Read more…