Women's liberation Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/movements-and-struggles/womens-liberation/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Fri, 12 Mar 2021 19:52:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.10 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Women's liberation Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/movements-and-struggles/womens-liberation/ 32 32 22825446 A Socialist Woman’s Experience with Sexism https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:08:54 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6769 By Suzanne Weiss: The following study was first published in ‘Against the Current,’ March-April 2021. It is reposted with permission from http://suzanneberlinerweiss.com. Contents: Barriers to Women’s Political Participation Women in Party Controversies A Transformative Feminist Radicalization My Party Loses Its Way 1. Barriers to Women’s Political Participation From its beginnings in the 1800s, modern socialism […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/12/a-socialist-womans-experience-with-sexism/feed/ 2 6769 Second-Wave Feminism: Accomplishments and Lessons https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/04/second-wave-feminism-accomplishments-and-lessons/ https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/04/second-wave-feminism-accomplishments-and-lessons/#respond Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:29:19 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6748 The following article is reprinted from “Against the Current,” no. 211 (March/April 2021)  with kind permission of ATC and Nancy Rosenstock. By Nancy Rosenstock: August 26, 1970 marked the public emergence of second-wave feminism, coming 50 years after the winning of women’s suffrage. The women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and early 1970s had a […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2021/03/04/second-wave-feminism-accomplishments-and-lessons/feed/ 0 6748 The 1970 Women’s Strike for Equality https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/03/the-1970-womens-strike-for-equality/ https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/03/the-1970-womens-strike-for-equality/#respond Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:59:11 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=6275 How a mass march relaunched women’s struggle for liberation in the US. An interview by Nancy Rosenstock with Ruthann Miller, reposted with permission from Jacobinmag.com. Introduction In August 1970, campaigners for women’s liberation mounted a huge demonstration that recharged feminism in the US. Ruthann Miller, the protest coordinator, was a socialist activist. She talks here […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2020/11/03/the-1970-womens-strike-for-equality/feed/ 0 6275 ‘The status of women is a question for all socialists’ https://johnriddell.com/2019/03/12/the-status-of-women-is-a-question-for-all-socialists/ https://johnriddell.com/2019/03/12/the-status-of-women-is-a-question-for-all-socialists/#respond Wed, 13 Mar 2019 00:59:19 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5264 Interview on ‘The Communist Women’s Movement 1920-22’ 8 March 2019: As we mark International Women’s Day (8 March), and the centenary of the establishment of the Communist International (March 1919), Estelle Cooch interviews Daria Dyakonova and Mike Taber about their project on the history of the Communist Women’s Movement (1920-22). The text is reprinted with permission from rs-21 (Revolutionary Socialism in […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2019/03/12/the-status-of-women-is-a-question-for-all-socialists/feed/ 0 5264 The roots of Fascism and the seeds for its defeat https://johnriddell.com/2018/12/12/the-roots-of-fascism-and-the-seeds-for-its-defeat/ https://johnriddell.com/2018/12/12/the-roots-of-fascism-and-the-seeds-for-its-defeat/#comments Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:04:57 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=5194 A review of  ‘Fighting Fascism’ by Clara Zetkin By Elizabeth Schulte: With the rise of the right internationally, there has never been a more pressing need for clarity about the roots of fascism, its history, and why and how it can be defeated. Among the clearest thinkers on this subject is German socialist Clara Zetkin, whose […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2018/12/12/the-roots-of-fascism-and-the-seeds-for-its-defeat/feed/ 1 5194 Women’s Day in Russia 1917: A day to prepare for victory https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/06/womens-day-in-russia-1917-a-day-to-prepare-for-victory/ https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/06/womens-day-in-russia-1917-a-day-to-prepare-for-victory/#comments Mon, 06 Mar 2017 16:22:20 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=3458 “1917: The View from the Streets” – leaflets of the Russian revolution – #5 A leaflet issued by Russian socialists 100 years ago to honor Working Women’s Day anticipated the revolution that began that day. For a French translation, see Europe Solidaire. One hundred years ago, on or about March 6 (February 21, according to […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2017/03/06/womens-day-in-russia-1917-a-day-to-prepare-for-victory/feed/ 2 3458 1915: Socialist women unite against war https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/28/1915-socialist-women-unite-against-war/ https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/28/1915-socialist-women-unite-against-war/#respond Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:59:28 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2255 100 years ago today: The first international socialist conference against World War 1 By John Riddell. Eight months into the First World War, socialist women united across the battle-lines in adopting the first international socialist appeal to stop the war. Their statement, translated below, ended, “Down with capitalism, which sacrifices untold millions to the wealth […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/28/1915-socialist-women-unite-against-war/feed/ 0 2255 Finland 1906: The revolutionary roots of women’s suffrage — an International Women’s Day tribute https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/04/finland-1906-the-revolutionary-roots-of-womens-suffrage-an-international-womens-day-tribute/ https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/04/finland-1906-the-revolutionary-roots-of-womens-suffrage-an-international-womens-day-tribute/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2015 21:36:54 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2194 Spanish translation available in ‘Sin Permiso‘ By Eric Blanc. In 1906, Finland became the world’s first nation to grant full female suffrage.[1] This watershed achievement for women was won by Finnish socialists during the revolutionary upheaval that swept the Czarist empire to which Finland belonged. Yet this important history has been overlooked by both academics […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2015/03/04/finland-1906-the-revolutionary-roots-of-womens-suffrage-an-international-womens-day-tribute/feed/ 1 2194 Reading Zetkin: What strategy for women’s liberation? https://johnriddell.com/2014/03/09/reading-zetkin-what-strategy-for-womens-liberation/ https://johnriddell.com/2014/03/09/reading-zetkin-what-strategy-for-womens-liberation/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2014 00:25:39 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1764 By John Riddell. In a recent comment to this blog, Tad Tietze defines Clara Zetkin’s approach to women’s oppression as marked by “consistent method, flexible application.” To portray this approach, he offers us an important speech by Zetkin to a convention of German socialists in 1896. In my view, Zetkin’s address is a classic of […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2014/03/09/reading-zetkin-what-strategy-for-womens-liberation/feed/ 2 1764 Zetkin and oppression: consistent method, flexible application https://johnriddell.com/2014/02/16/zetkin-and-oppression-consistent-method-flexible-application/ https://johnriddell.com/2014/02/16/zetkin-and-oppression-consistent-method-flexible-application/#respond Sun, 16 Feb 2014 16:13:42 +0000 http://johnriddell.com/?p=1759 The following is a comment on my post, “Reading Zetkin in Context.” Other articles in this exchange are listed at the close.–JR By Tad Tietze. John, I am unconvinced by your positions on both Zetkin’s views and the issue of “context.” On Zetkin’s views, it seems to me that while she shifted some of her […]

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