International Communist Review - Issue 8 - 2018
The class character of the women question and its development. The responsibilities of the CPs for the emancipation of women, Eleni Mpellou (“Kommounistiki Epitheorisi”, Communist Party of Greece)
Communists and the emancipation of women: a debate with bourgeois and petty-bourgeois feminism currents, Commission for the Women’s Emancipation of the CC of PCM (“El Comunista”, Communist Party of Mexico)
The role of Communist Parties in organising women workers, unemployed women, urban and rural self-employed women, young and old, Bulelwa Tunyiswa (“African Communist”, South African Communist Party)
The socio-economic situation of women in the conditions of capitalist restoration, (New Communist Party of Yugoslavia)
Against conservatism and liberalism: Women’s emancipation and struggle in Turkey, Özlem Aydın (“Gelenek”, Communist Party of Turkey)
100 years of women's liberation Soviet Central Asia, as well as regression and enslavement during the period of the establishment of capitalism, (Socialist Movement of Kazakhstan)
Women and Workers' movement in Italy, Female Department of the CC (“Critica Proletaria”, Communist Party, Italy)
Women in Russia and their involvement in social struggles, protests and in the class struggle, Vasilina Fedorova (“Sovetskii Soyuz”, Russian Communist Workers’ Party)
Women, class and socialism: The struggle for the emancipation of women in Ireland, (“Think Left”, Workers’ Party of Ireland)
Marxism and the Struggle for Women’s Emancipation in Contemporary India, Brinda Karat (Communist Party of India, Marxist)
The position of women in capitalist Hungary, (“Szabadsag”, Hungarian Workers’ Party)
The class character of the struggle for women's emancipation in capitalism. The situation in Spain, Raúl Martínez and Marina Quintillán (“Nuestra Politica”, Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain)
Table of Contents
Dear reader,
You hold in your hands the 8th issue of the International Communist Review which was published in 2018 and is dedicated to the necessary specialized work of the CPs amongst salaried and unemployed women, urban and rural self-employed women, young women from working class, popular ...
In the works of scientific communism, the historical research on the social-economic, legislative and general cultural position in each socio-economic formation is related to the analysis of the class structure of society and the discovery of the laws that govern the prevalent social relations, ...
What communism will give women, in no case the bourgeois women's movement can give them. As long as the domination of capital and private ownership exists, women´s liberation is impossible.
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System of patriarchy and gender discrimination, the culture that no one ever thought would be dismantled. It was originated from apartheid and the introduction of colonisation of a special type. ...
"Those who have promised liberation to humanity vouching for it with their honour must not allow one half of the human race to be condemned to enslavement due to financial and social dependence. ...
The first significant step towards women’s emancipation in Turkey is the establishment of a republican state, which included criminalization of forced marriages, implementation of civil and educational rights and many other progressive achievements. ...
The great October socialist Revolution marked a watershed in the history of the peoples of Central Asia and Azerbaijan and, in particular, has radically changed the public and social status of women. ...
In a time, when the disinformation, carried out by capitalist media, is trying to impose the dominant class' way of thinking on the masses, Communists must remind the essential and fundamental role, played by the struggles of proletarian women, in the achievement of economic, social and civil ...
Why do we have a concept of women’s movement in the world today?
This is due to the fact that while the family is a unit of the social life and private property conditions prevail, the reproductive function and the birth makes a woman dependent and not as free as a man. ...
“The working woman is first and foremost a member of the working class, and the more satisfactory the position and the general welfare of each member of the proletarian family, the greater the benefit in the long run to the whole of the working class. ...
The struggle for and the road to women’s emancipation depends on the nature of the State and the specific correlation of class forces in any given society. ...
The socialist system has been overthrown in Hungary in 1989-1990 and the country stepped on the road of capitalism. This fundamentally changed the position of women in society.
The number of employed women considerably reduced. In socialism the vast majority of women worked. ...
"The emancipation of women, together with that of all humanity, will take place only with the emancipation of labour from capital. Only in the socialist society the women, like the workers, will take full possesion of their rights".
Clara Zetkin, 1889.
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